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Article: God: A Biography.
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- National Review
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- August 14, 1995
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God: A Biography, by Jack Miles (Knopf, 409 pp., $27.50)
Mr. Arkes is the Edward Ney Professor of Jurisprudence at Amherst College and a contributing editor of NR. His most recent book is The Return of George Sutherland (Princeton).
SPINOZA sought gently to deliver his readers from the superstition that Moses had to ascend Mount Sinai in order to get closer to God. The gesture might have been useful for Moses, as a bit of theater, to make an impression on the minds of his followers. But as Spinoza remarked, God would have been no less near to Moses on the plain than in the heights. God would have heard him quite as well, for God did not suffer from diminished ...