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"""A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year"" ""A meditative blend of history and travelogue . . . brings the soundscape of the desert to life."" * New Yorker * ""An engaging and inspiring book that provides much needed reflection on the significance of nature, sound, and silence in a noisy age.""---Elizabeth Orens, The Living Church ""[Sonorous Desert] is about the experience of solitude, sound, and silence in the ancient world and today. . . . These ideas are significant for current discussion of spirituality and human well-being."" * Choice *"

"""A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year"" ""Winner of the American Book Fest Best Book Award, Religion Category"" ""A meditative blend of history and travelogue . . . brings the soundscape of the desert to life."" * New Yorker * ""An engaging and inspiring book that provides much needed reflection on the significance of nature, sound, and silence in a noisy age.""---Elizabeth Orens, The Living Church ""[Sonorous Desert] is about the experience of solitude, sound, and silence in the ancient world and today. . . . These ideas are significant for current discussion of spirituality and human well-being."" * Choice *"

"""A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year"" ""Winner of the American Book Fest Best Book Award, Religion Category"" ""A meditative blend of history and travelogue . . . brings the soundscape of the desert to life."" * The New Yorker * ""An engaging and inspiring book that provides much needed reflection on the significance of nature, sound, and silence in a noisy age.""---Elizabeth Orens, Living Church ""[Sonorous Desert] is about the experience of solitude, sound, and silence in the ancient world and today. . . . These ideas are significant for current discussion of spirituality and human well-being."" * Choice *"

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Kim Haines-Eitzen is the Hendrix Memorial Professor of Early Christianity and Early Judaism at Cornell University. She is the author of The Gendered Palimpsest and Guardians of Letters. She appeared in National Geographic's The Story of God with Morgan Freeman. She divides her time between Ithaca, New York, and the remote desert mountains of southeastern Arizona.

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