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Year Of Living Biblically

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Simon And Schuster
  • 14 x 21.1 x 3.1 cm

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For those seeking deeper faith and understanding.

"Year Of Living Biblically" shows how to live by faith.

You’ll find joy and wisdom in everyday life choices.

Join A.J. Jacobs on his hilarious and eye-opening journey as he attempts to live by the Bible's rules for a whole year, discovering profound insights and unexpected challenges along the way.

Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But also to obey the hundreds of less publicized rules: to avoid wearing clothes made of mixed fibers; to play a ten-string harp; to stone adulterers. 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. Jacobs's quest transforms his life even more radically than the year spent reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica for The Know-It-All. His beard grows so unruly that he is regularly mistaken for a member of ZZ Top. He immerses himself in prayer, tends sheep in the Israeli desert, battles idolatry, and tells the absolute truth in all situations - much to his wife's chagrin. Throughout the book, Jacobs also embeds himself in a cross-section of communities that take the Bible literally. He tours a Kentucky-based creationist museum and sings hymns with Pennsylvania Amish. He dances with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn and does Scripture study with Jehovah's Witnesses. He discovers ancient biblical wisdom of startling relevance. And he wrestles with seemingly archaic rules that baffle the twenty-first-century brain. Jacobs's extraordinary undertaking yields unexpected epiphanies and challenges. A book that will charm readers both secular and religious, The Year of Living Biblically is part Cliff Notes to the Bible, part memoir, and part look into worlds unimaginable. Thou shalt not be able to put it down.

  • Title

    Year Of Living Biblically

  • Author

    A. J. Jacobs

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Simon And Schuster

  • Published

    September 2008

  • Weight

    364g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.1 x 3.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780743291484

  • ISBN-10

    0743291484

  • Eden Code

    3993432

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