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Product Details
Simon & Schuster, July 1999
eBook, 368 pages
ISBN-10: 0684867680
ISBN-13: 9780684867687
Description
Mount Sinai, for many, it is the most sacred place on Earth - the
site where God descended to give Moses the Ten Commandments.
Yet for centuries, mankind has not known its exact location.
In this heart-pounding adventure, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Howard Blum tells the enthralling story of two modern-day adventurers - Larry Williams, a self-made millionaire and published author from Montana, and his friend Bob Cornuke, a retired policeman and former SWAT team member. Lured by the prospect of finding a fortune in gold, the two men set out to find the true site of Mount Sinai - with the Old Testament as a guide.
The stunning discoveries made at the mountain in Saudi Arabia known as Jabal al Lawz will astonish the world - and change the way we view it. What Williams and Cornuke found was compelling evidence of the stone altar at which the Golden Calf was worshipped, the twelve pillars that Moses ordered to be erected, and, most sensationally, the unnaturally scorched spot on the mountaintop where God gave Moses the two stone tablets.
This action-packed tale - part high-tech treasure hunt, part modern-day spy thriller, and part biblical detective story - is riveting. And it is all true.
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Text Excerpt 1Clive Cussler
Author of Flood Tide and The Sea Hunter
This is an intriguing thriller and adventure that has everything—and best of all, it is a true tale. Blum knows how to make the action flow. You can't help but be swept up by it.
Dr. Roy Knuteson
The visible evidence found in Howard Blum's The Gold of Exodus is remarkable and quite overwhelming. It appears that the location of the true Mount Sinai has at last been discovered.
Joseph Telushkin
Author of Biblical Literacy
The Gold of Exodus is compusively readable—and more. The fact that several prominent biblical scholars support the book's assertion that the true Mount Sinai is in Sadi Arabia transforms this into the ultimate and perfect adventure story.
