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Online Book Reviews: Epic Story of Moses Inspired the Founding Fathers


July 19, 2010
Online Book Reviews

Read this inspiring review as found on the Glenn Beck Website.

How Moses inspired the Founding Fathers,  By Bruce Feiler

A few years ago, I set out looking at the role of Moses in inspiring generation after generation of Americans.  I had just returned home from a decade retracing the bible through the Middle East for a series of books called Walking the Bible, Abraham, and Where God Was Born, and was interested in how the Bible helped shape America.
I sailed on Plymouth Harbor, where the Pilgrims compared their journey to Moses; I retraced the Underground Railroad where “Go Down, Moses” was the national anthem of slaves; I climbed the Statue of Liberty, whose spikes of light and tablet were taken from the moment Moses comes down Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments; and I donned the robe Charlton Heston wore in The Ten Commandments.
But nothing surprised me more than how central Moses and the story of the Exodus were to the Founding Fathers.

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