Walking the Bible

by Bruce Feiler

  —Anglican Herald

  “Goren and Feiler make for two of the most entertaining traveling buddies since Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.”

  —Jewish Bulletin (San Francisco)

  “How on earth did Bruce Feiler come up with so many new, insightful, witty, and touching things to say about this most ancient of civilized regions?”

  —Melissa Fay Greene, author of Praying for Sheetrock

  “Walking the Bible is armchair reading with a spiritual bentCombining journalism, analysis of the text, history, memoir, and many interesting digressions, Feiler writes with a sense of poetry about the land.”

  —The Jewish Week

  “This book belongs on the shelves next to the classics.”

  —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

  “Full of wonder and awe, yet written from a perspective of reasoned inquiry, Walking the Bible delightfully proves that the rational and the mystical can exist side by side, each contributing to the understanding of personal and cultural religious heritage.”

  —Booklist (starred review)

  Also by Bruce Feiler

  Learning to Bow

  Inside the Heart of Japan

  Looking for Class

  Seeking Wisdom and Romance at Oxford and Cambridge

  Under the Big Top

  A Season with the Circus

  Dreaming Out Loud

  Garth Brooks, Wynonna Judd, Wade Hayes, and the Changing Face of Nashville

  Credits

  Cover Design © 2001 by Beth Middleworth

  Cover Photograph © 2001 by Tony Stone

  Designed by Claire Vaccaro

  Maps by Jeffrey L. Ward

  Copyright

  A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2001 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

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  “A Study and Reading Group Guide to Walking the Bible.” Copyright © 2001 by HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

  EPub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2002 ISBN: 9780061804823

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  First Perennial edition published 2002.

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