WALKING THE BIBLE BY AUTHOR BRUCE FEILER

Walking the Bible by author Bruce Feiler

Walking the Bible by author Bruce Feiler

Introduction

Walking the Bible is Bruce Feiler's engrossing 10,000-mile excursion and archaeological odyssey — by base, jeep, rowboat, and camel — through the Holy Land. A fifth-generation Jew from Savannah, Georgia, Feiler was overwhelm with the advocate to reconnect with the Bible, considering upon the initial seeker, Abraham, as his inspiration:

Walking the Bible by scribe Bruce Feiler

Mr. Feiler, in taking us through diverse rough and craggy countryside's whose very look gleams with biblical associations, verifies to be an very good direct and a worthy wrestler. He has put an tremendous allowance of data into this publication and has bought into it with a enthusiastic thoughtful curiousness, in order that we discover a large deal about the religious significance of the Bible and the centuries of conjecture about it as a chronicled document. Most of all, Mr. Feiler accomplishes for his readers what he set out to accomplish for himself: to ground the Bible in genuine dirt and in genuine annals and, in so doing, illustrate its astonishing vitality.

These publication locations a theme that I understand little about and it does so in a very amusing way. The publication is well studied but still very readable. I read it because it was a assortment in a publication association to which I belong. I would not have advised reading it on my own. However, I'm very pleased I read it and I have suggested it to my relations and friends.

Abraham was not initially the man he became. He was not an Israelite, he was not a Jew. He was not even a believer in God — not less than initially. He was a traveler, called by some voice not solely clear that said: Go head to ...