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Robert Miller's new book provides a rich and nuanced account of the desert. He transforms it from an abstract metaphor into a place that is real, strange, precarious and tenacious. --Dr. Nathan MacDonald, Reader in the Interpretation of the Old Testament, Cambridge University Robert Miller's Wilderness as Metaphor for God in the Hebrew Bible is a concise but rich Biblical-spiritual deconstruction of the South . Going south in common vernacular either denotes an unfortunate turn of events or it is uncritically romanticised. Miller successfully indicates the paradoxical nature of the South - the desert - as both a place and a presence in which paradox is the guiding hermeneutical principle and he rightly relates it to a paradoxical God who is both hidden and revealed and experienced as both desolate and abundant. This is in line with the very nature of a metaphor, which has an 'is' and an 'is not' dual character. As such, Miller's work makes a valuable contribution to Christian spirituality in general and mystic Christian spirituality in particular. It connects multiple disciplines and therefore theologians and students interested in Christian spirituality and the formation of God-images and God-language will find Miller's work particularly useful. --Dr Tanya van Wyk (Christian Spirituality and Christian Ethics; Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria, South Africa)

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Robert Miller is a Secular Franciscan and Ordinary Professor of Old Testament at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. With a PhD from the University of Michigan, he has taught and written widely on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of Ancient Israel. He is a Research Affiliate of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Pretoria and a Life Member of St Johns College, Cambridge.

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