Contents

Cover

Also by Jack Miles

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Foreword: Of God, Religion, and the Violence of Sacred Scripture

Chapter 1: Adam and His Wife

Chapter 2: Adam’s Son and His Brother

Chapter 3: Noah

Chapter 4: Abraham and His Father

Chapter 5: Abraham and His Sons

Chapter 6: Joseph

Chapter 7: Moses

Chapter 8: Jesus and His Mother

Afterword: On the Qur’an as the Word of God

Appendix: Of Satan and the Afterlife in the Bible and the Qur’an

Acknowledgments

Notes

A Note About the Author