Synopsis
WALKING THE BIBLE is simultaneously a spiritual quest and a 'geographical exegesis' of scripture. Feiler, who teamed up with archeological expert Avner Goren, trekked 10,000 miles across the Near and Middle East following the historical events of the Old Testament. Not only does he vividly describe the journey--he also connects a spiritual intensity to each geographic locale he visits. The result is a deeply researched, almost scholarly, yet skillfully crafted and profound spiritual travelogue.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2001-04-01 | | Narrated by: | Bruce S. Feiler | | Edition Description: | Abridged |
| Size | | Height: | 7.0 in | | Width: | 4.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Publisher's Note
One part adventure story, one part archaeological detective work, one part spiritual exploration, Walking The Bible vividly recounts an inspiring personal odyssey -- by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel -- through the greatest stories ever told. Feeling a desire to reconnect to the Bible, award-winning author Bruce Feiler set out on a perilous, 10,000 mile journey retracing the Five Books of Moses through the desert. Traveling over Lee continents, through five countries, and four war zones, Feiler is the first person to complete such a historic expedition. He crosses the Red Sea, climbs Mt. Sinai, and interviews bedouin and pilgrims alike, as he attempts to answer the question: Is the Bible just an abstraction, or is it a living, breathing entity? Both a pulse-pounding adventure and an uplifting spiritual quest, Bruce Feiler's Walking the Bible is a stunning and elevating work of courage, scholarship, and heart that revisits the inscrutable desert landscape where the world's great religions were born and uncovers fresh answers to the most profound questions of the human spirit.
Industry Reviews
"[U]ltimately Feiler's journey becomes a travelogue not simply of places but of people, those for whom the Bible is still birthplace and battleground--the Palestinians, Kurds, and kibbutzniks whose words and works keep reinventing the Holy Land as 'a literary landscape as rich and bountiful as Shakespeare's England, Flaubert's France, or Joyce's Ireland.'"
Caroline Fraser (04/20/2001)
"While he unearths no proof of the miraculous, Feiler, a secular-minded Jewish American Southerner, finds the landscape so soul-stirring that his scientific quest takes a detour, becoming instead an eloquently spiritual pilgrimage."
Entertainment Weekly - Megan Harlan (04/20/2001)
"The seamlessness with which Feiler blends first-person narrative, biblical lore, archeology and history in WALKING THE BIBLE will be familiar to readers of his previous books; the intensity with which he chronicles his spiritual journey will not."
Publishers Weekly - Wendy Smith (04/30/2001)
"Although his insights are seldom startling and his writing tends towards the long-winded, Feiler delivers a wealth of information in an accessible and entertaining format."
New York Times Book Review - Diane Cole (07/22/2001)
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