The New Jew Canon: God: A Biography

Richard Dawkins somewhat famously describes God as a "misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." He's not such a fan. If you want a more nuanced view of God, I loved God: A Biography by Jack Miles. It's an amazing work. Miles decides to analyze God in the way you'd analyze the main character of a great work of literature. The portrait that emerges is of an evolving God, a complex and fascinating God, a God with the capacity for both mercy and swift judgment. Miles doesn't whitewash the God of the Hebrew Scriptures, but he doesn't take the Dawkins character assassination route either.