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The Prophet of the Andes : An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land

Name: The Prophet of the Andes : An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land
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ISBN: 9781101875186

Graciela MochkofskyLisa Dillman

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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...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

2021043415

ISBN 13:

9781101875186