The Prophet of the Andes
An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land
- Format: Innbundet
- Antall sider: 288
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9781101875186
- Utgivelsesår: 2022
- Bidragsyter: Mochkofsky, Graciela; Dillman, Lisa
349,-
The remarkable true story of how one Peruvian carpenter led hundreds of Christians to Judaism, sparking a pilgrimage from the Andes to Israel and inspiring a wave of emerging Latin American Jewish communities
“If Gabriel García Márquez had written the Old Testament, it might read like Graciela Mochkofsky''s staggering true account of a humble Peruvian carpenter''s spiritual odyssey from a shack in the Andes, via the Amazon, to the Promised Land of Israel with a community of devoted followers." —Judith Thurman, award-winning author of Isak Dinesen
Segundo Villanueva was born in 1927 in a tiny farming village perched in the Andes; when he was seventeen, his father was murdered and Segundo was left with little more than a Bible as his inheritance. This Bible launched Segundo on a lifelong obsession to find the true message of God contained in its pages. He found himself looking for answers outside the Catholic Churc
“If Gabriel García Márquez had written the Old Testament, it might read like Graciela Mochkofsky''s staggering true account of a humble Peruvian carpenter''s spiritual odyssey from a shack in the Andes, via the Amazon, to the Promised Land of Israel with a community of devoted followers." —Judith Thurman, award-winning author of Isak Dinesen
Segundo Villanueva was born in 1927 in a tiny farming village perched in the Andes; when he was seventeen, his father was murdered and Segundo was left with little more than a Bible as his inheritance. This Bible launched Segundo on a lifelong obsession to find the true message of God contained in its pages. He found himself looking for answers outside the Catholic Churc