OF GOD AND MAN

In his jokey review of “God: A Biography” by Jack Miles (April 9), Paul Wilkes writes: “Soon (after the flood), I (Wilkes is play-acting God) . . . evolve into “a man (A man!) of unreflective self-confidence, intrusive-to aggressive habits and unpredictable eloquence . . . who discloses nothing about his past and next to nothing about his needs or desires.”

The half-sentence Wilkes quotes comes from a discussion of how the anthropomorphism of the Hebrew Bible differs from that of Greek mythology. The omitted opening of the quoted sentence reads: “His (God’s) manner in the Book of Genesis is, very roughly, that of a man of unreflective self-confidence,” as quoted. Emphasis added.

For the record, my book does not say at any point that God “evolves into man.”

JACK MILES, LOS ANGELES