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Where God Was Born: A Daring Adventure Through the Bible's Greatest Stories
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Author
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Bruce Feiler.
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Publisher
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Harper Perennial
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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8
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5.25
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1.2
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ISBN
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9780060574895
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Pages/Publication Date
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405/2007
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Daedalus Item Code
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23958
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Description
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"[The author of Walking the Bible] treads on very dangerous ground in this marvelous account of his journey to Israel, Iraq, and Iran—an expedition beginning with a treacherous helicopter ride over the West Bank and ending with an equally perilous airlift into Baghdad. Using the second half of the Hebrew Bible as his guide, [Bruce] Feiler retraced, and he reinterprets, Joshua's conquest of the Promised Land, David's struggle with Goliath, the capture of Jericho, and the history of the prophets. In tandem, he recounts discussing the Bible with people he met along the way, who range from military chaplains to archaeologists. He visited Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Baghdad, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Babylon, and Tehran, and found that exploring through the prism of the Bible allowed him to see everything in a new light. Now he wonders, most of all, about the role of religion in contemporary life. Can faith and tolerance coexist? Is religion a source of conflict or of peace? Erudite yet immensely readable, he chronicles a spiritual journey to the roots of Western civilization."—Booklist
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