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Apostle by Tom Bissell

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Apostle

Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve

Tom Bissell, Random House Audio

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · February 7, 2017

Reading lane: New Testament Biography

The story of Twelve Apostles is the story of early Christianity: its competing versions of Jesus’s ministry, its countless schisms, and its ultimate evolution from an obscure Jewish sect to the global faith we know today in all its forms and permutations.

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Why This Clicks

Tomb and Text

A grave, searching account that rewards close reading and slow attention.

Come here for

  • New Testament biography with church-history reach
  • Rigorous, specialist-minded religious study

Expect

  • Tombs of the Twelve as organizing thread
  • Insight-heavy rather than devotional

Book Details

Authors
Tom Bissell, Random House Audio
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published
February 7, 2017
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
New Testament Biography · Pilgrimage & Sacred Travel
Reading lane
New Testament Biography

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Publisher Categories

  • Ancient History

  • Christian History

  • Pilgrimage & Sacred Travel

About This Book

The story of Twelve Apostles is the story of early Christianity: its competing versions of Jesus’s ministry, its countless schisms, and its ultimate evolution from an obscure Jewish sect to the global faith we know today in all its forms and permutations. In his quest to understand the underpinnings of the world’s largest religion, Tom Bissell embarks on a years-long pilgrimage to the apostles’ supposed tombs, traveling from Jerusalem and Rome to Turkey, Greece, Spain, Franc...

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The story of Twelve Apostles is the story of early Christianity: its competing versions of Jesus’s ministry, its countless schisms, and its ultimate evolution from an obscure Jewish sect to the global faith we know today in all its forms and permutations. In his quest to understand the underpinnings of the world’s largest religion, Tom Bissell embarks on a years-long pilgrimage to the apostles’ supposed tombs, traveling from Jerusalem and Rome to Turkey, Greece, Spain, France, India, and Kyrgyzstan. Along the way, Bissell uncovers the mysterious and often paradoxical lives of these twelve men and how their identities have taken shape over the course of two millennia. Written with empathy and a rare acumen—and often extremely funny— Apostle is an intellectual, spiritual, and personal adventure fit for believers, scholars, and wanderers alike.

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