The Year of Living Biblically

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Avoiding shellfish was easy. The stoning of adulterers proved a little more difficult – and potentially controversial. Was it enough to walk up to an adulterer and gently touch them with a stone? Even that could be grounds for accusations of assault, especially with female adulterers in Manhattan. So what’s a good Bible-reading boy to do?Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in head first and attempt to obey the hundreds of less-publicized rules. The resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound, reverent and irreverent, personal and universal, and will make you see history’s most influential book with new eyes.

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Weight 0.277 kg
Dimensions 2.4 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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format

Language

Pages

400

publisher

Year Published

2009-3-5

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099509792

About The Author

A. J. Jacobs is the editor at large at Esquire. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Know-It-All. He has contributed to the New York Times, New York magazine, and NPR's Weekend Edition, among others. He lives in New York. See ajjacobs.com for more information.

A.J. Jacobs has written a – how else to put it? – Good Book. Let me take my review from the original, Psalm 2, verse 4: 'He that sittith in the heavens shall laugh.' And let me suggest that readers, whether they know their bible or not, get to know A.J. Jacobs. But not in a biblical sense, please

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Jacobs has two great strengths as a writer. One is his extreme open-mindedness…the other is his humour, which he uses with precision and some subtelety.

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