SITE-SEEING

MARILYN JONES, SENIOR WRITER

EVER SINCE girl-detective Nancy Drew changed my world when I was about ten, I've been a big fan of mystery stories. And adventures of all kinds. Especially the kind that happen in faraway places. So when I missed the PBS series Walking the Bible (which aired in January), I was disappointed because I knew it probably had the three elements I most love in a story—mystery, adventure, and locations I've never been to. But—good news!—I don't have to wait for wait for the next public television fundraiser to see it. This month TMC Entertainment will release the series on DVD.

Based on Bruce Feiler's best-selling book of the same name, the video documentary Walking the Bible takes viewers on a geographical and spiritual journey through the first five books of the Bible. And as anyone who has read those books knows, many of the Pentateuch's central characters—including Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and the Israelites trying to reach the Promised Land—struggled through mysteries so challenging and experienced adventures so awesome that people have been telling and retelling them, trying to figure them all out, for the last 5,000 years.

But what's new here is that in the hi-def television version, from the comfort of your cozy armchair, you can almost feel the cold night air of the desert knifing into the seams of a Bedouin tent, or taste the sweet honey flavor of the actual manna, the "hazelnut-size" pellet that sustained the Israelites for 40 years in the same wilderness that Feiler takes us through.

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FROM THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS