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Walking the Bible retraces Bruce Feiler's perilous odyssey to the deserts where the great Biblical stories originally unfolded over two millennia ago. Filmed in HD in evocative areas of Israel, Jordan, Egypt, the Sinai, and Mt. Ararat, the series is part adventure story, part archeological detective work, and part spiritual exploration.
Feiler seeks parallels among religion, geography, history, and the modern inhabitants of the ancient Biblical sites. Along with Avner Goren, a leading Israeli archaeologist of the Sinai, viewers will accompany Feiler by foot, Jeep, rowboat, and camel to the forbidding and hostile environments of the Mesopotamian highlands, the Nile Delta, and the Sinai Desert. There all will experience the travails of the patriarchs and the dangers of the Exodus. When I asked Bruce what he found most remarkable about his original voyage, he paused. With a sense of wonder that was palpable, he mentioned it was after he crossed the Red Sea. He believed himself to have experienced the same fear of the unknown he suspects Moses and the others must have felt when they first stepped onto the barren desert after their Red Sea crossing.
Hour one, Go Forth: From Creation to Abraham, takes viewers from the Tigris and Euphrates, to Mt. Ararat where Noah's Ark came to rest, to the site of Sodom and Gormorrah and the salt pillars, to Jerusalem's Temple Mount where Abraham raised his knife over his son Isaac.
In the second hour, A Coat of Many Colors: The Israelites in Egypt, questions are raised about the builders of the pyramids, the real location of the Red Sea, the mystery of desert survival, and the botanical secret of how the Israelites ate. A Bedouin solves the mystery by showing Bruce the Tamarisk tree, which produces what his people call "manna." And we watch Bruce as he tastes and savors it.
The third hour continues on -- Toward the Promised Land: Forty Years in the Desert. Feiler visits the hidden St. Catherine's monastery that houses the Burning Bush, climbs the mountain where Moss received the Ten Commandments, probes where and why the Israelites rebelled against Moses, and ends where Moses dies, on Mt. Nebo overlooking The Promised Land.
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