Walking the Bible | Walking the Bible

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Author: Bruce Feiler
First Published: 2001
Type of Work: Travel, archaeology, history, literary criticism, and religion
Time of Work: 2000-1200 and 1998-1999
Setting: The Middle East (Turkey, Israel, Palestinian territories, Jordan, Egypt)
Principal Characters: Bruce Feiler, Avner Goren
Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Travel writing, History, Religion and spirituality
Subjects: Literature, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Archaeology or archaeologists, Literary criticism
Locales: Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Turkey

Bruce Feiler has taken an amazing journey, and he has written a rather long book describing it. In a project conceived on a visit to Jerusalem, the author wanted somehow to enter into the world of the Bible by traversing the itineraries of its first five books—the books of Moses, or the Pentateuch.

Feiler realized at the beginning of his planning that he was not up to the task. Even with extensive background reading, he knows too little about the history and archaeology of the ancient world of the Bible to find his way on his own. Perhaps more important, he knows too little...

Walking the Bible | Walking the Bible

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