Author of "Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths" to Give Weinstein-Rosenthal Lecture at University of Richmond

October 17, 2003

Bruce Feiler has written about teaching English in a small Japanese town, studying and finding romance at Cambridge and Oxford, spending a year as a clown with the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus and hanging out with country singers Garth Brooks and Wynonna Judd.

But his most recent books deal with the Bible. In "Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses," Feiler describes his10,000-mile journey across the Near and Middle East, in search of locales of key events of the Old Testament.

His latest book, "Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths," is the first interfaith portrait of Abraham, the shared ancestor of Jews, Christians and Muslims, the man who Feiler believes holds "the key to our deepest fears--and our possible reconciliation."

Feiler's lecture, "Can We All Get Along? Building Bridges Among the Religions in the Twenty-First Century," will begin at 8 p.m. on Nov. 10 in the Pavilion Room of the Jepson Alumni Center at the University of Richmond. The speech, the 17th annual Weinstein-Rosenthal Lecture funded by the Weinstein-Rosenthal Chair of Jewish-Christian Studies, is free and open to the public.