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Review title: Sheds new light on the stories of Abraham, Joseph, Moses et al.
Product review: I agree with some reviewers that Feiler is not a great prose stylist and that some of his descriptions of places and things are either overwrought or banal.However, I found the book fascinating as a secular Jew's face-to-face encounter with the chief document of his religion. Feiler certainly does not find a connection to the Divine in a blinding flash of insight, but he acknowledges, sometimes begrudgingly, that the biblical narratives are remarkably consistent with what archaeology tells us about life in the ancient Near East.Archaeology cannot prove the stories true, of course -- but many biblical critics have given them so little credence as to argue that they cannot possibly be accurate. Feiler's book, although not a scholarly work, should at least give pause to these thinkers.
