Standing Where Moses Stood
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Published: January 4, 2006

Bruce Feiler is the author of what the blogger Mickey Kaus has called the Feiler Faster Thesis: something about the velocity of news cycles being matched by the pace of actual events. But tonight, on the first installment of "Walking the Bible," a three-part PBS documentary created to complement his book of the same name, Mr. Feiler, a journalist, moves slowly, even ponderously. This long and winding documentary chronicles an extremely self-conscious case of Jerusalem syndrome, in which Mr. Feiler ambles around the places of the Old Testament and asks himself questions like "Would I have been willing to sacrifice my son for God?"

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Walking the Bible
WCNY/Channel 24
January 5, 2006 3:00AM
January 19, 2006 8:00PM