In recent years literary studies of the Bible have explored all kinds of topics--save God, the chief protagonist of the narrative. That not insignificant subject has now received its due, a tour de force called 'God: A Biography, by J...

A brief, beautiful invitation to the study of religion from a Pulitzer Prize winner.How did our forebears begin to think about religion as a distinct domain, separate from other activities that were once inseparable from it? Starting ...