Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve

Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve

Tom Bissell • Vintage

ISBN-10: 1777715172 · ISBN-13: 978‑0307278456 · 2017

Live offer for this book: 9 live copies of this book from $4.41 (as of 2026-09-05).

Canonical book record

Completeness 63

Cover quality: good

2manybooks editorial

The story of Twelve Apostles is the story of early Christianity: its competing versions of Jesus’s ministry, its countless schisms, and its ultimate evolution from an obscure Jewish sect to the global faith we know today in all its forms and permutations. In his quest to understand the underpinnings of the world’s largest religion, Tom Bissell embarks on a years-long pilgrimage to the apostles’ supposed tombs, traveling from Jerusalem and Rome to Turkey, Greece, Spain, France, India, and Kyrgyzstan. Along the way, Bissell uncovers the mysterious and often paradoxical lives of these twelve men and how their identities have taken shape over the course of two millennia. Written with empathy and a rare acumen—and often extremely funny—Apostle is an intellectual, spiritual, and personal adventure fit for believers, scholars, and wanderers alike.

Book metadata

Marketplace observations

9 live copies of this book from $4.41 (as of 2026-09-05).

Contributors

Community tags

Inferred themes

Machine-inferred from catalog text. Not verified subjects.

Community signals

Have: 15 · Like: 6 · Rating: 3.4 / 5 (4)