{"id":20124,"date":"2019-09-05T15:58:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T20:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ravenfoundation.org\/?page_id=20124"},"modified":"2021-04-28T09:20:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:20:35","slug":"jack-miles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ravenfoundation.org\/about-us\/jack-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column el_class=&#8221;circle&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;20112&#8243; img_size=&#8221;&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>Jack Miles<\/h1>\n<p>Jack Miles is Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. In 1996, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for <em>God: A Biography<\/em> (translated into 16 languages) and is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship (2002-2007). Professor Miles was a Jesuit seminarian from 1960 to 1970, studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem before completing a doctorate in the department of Near Eastern Languages at Harvard. He has been an editor at Doubleday, executive editor at the University of California Press and literary editor at the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>. His second book, <em>Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God<\/em>, was named a New York Time Notable Book of 2002. His writings have appeared in <em>The Atlantic Monthly<\/em>, <em>The New York Times<\/em>, and <em>The Washington Post<\/em> among other publications. He is the general editor of the <em>Norton Anthology of World Religions <\/em>and recently completed the third book in his God in Three Classic Scriptures series, <em>God in the Qur\u2019an<\/em>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column el_class=&#8221;circle&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;20112&#8243; img_size=&#8221;&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text] Jack Miles Jack Miles is Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. In 1996, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for God: A Biography (translated into 16 languages) and is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship (2002-2007). 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