In The Footsteps Of Moses Summary

Moshe Pearlman vividly whisks the reader away in a literary time machine, titled In the Footsteps of Moses. This literary time machine is achieved through placing us, the reader right into the years that came before, the years throughout and the time that passed after Moses lifetime including the standing impact that is echoed in Jewish culture today. I especially find that Pearlman’s decision to present the history and vast amount of information upon his subject in the form of a story being told is very entertaining, as opposed to something factual and bland from a encyclopedia. Moshe Pearlman wastes no time in diving right into the good stuff, but he does so only briefly as to leave room for him to adhere with a smooth timeline. “He was born …show more content…
We are taken with the story and find ourselves venturing with Joshua and Moses in search of the promised land in section five. While the lack of a bibliography is rather disappointing to this nearly massive amount of information that is provided can be useful, especially when Pearlman begins discussing specifications of tools and …show more content…
I prefer to read books in this format, as I find it much easier to finish the book. The inside covers on both the front and back provide a very good synopsis of the book and gives us a breif sense of the books purpose. That purpose of which is to tell the story of Moses, more in-depth than most books would, going into details often left out and even the unimportant and mundane parts of his life. The book follows Moses as a infant, seperated from his people and raised in a different culture. We later watch him progress as civilization changes, so does