Thursday, October 25, 2007

Bruce Feiler - Walking the Bible

Walking the Bible, A Journey By Land Through The Five Books of Moses written by Bruce Feiler.

I've just begun reading this book and find it fascinating. Having walked the streets of Ephesus and other Biblical sites while living in Turkiye, Feiler's travels through the Middle East are of particular interest to me. Although I was unable to visit Mount Ararat and other locations mentioned in the book I've read extensively about many of them. His descriptions of the sights, sounds and details of the cities and landscapes along the way are of how they exist today. Yet, having traveled in Turkiye, I can personally attest that once you are there, it's easy to wonder and try to evoke in your own mind how it would looked or have been long ago, long before any modern age.

Bruce Feiler, accompanied by renowned Archaeologist Avner Goren, traveled through war zones, multiple countries and continents while retracing Biblical locations. Feiler was attempting to answer his personal query "Is the Bible just an abstraction or is it a living, breathing entity?"
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