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The Year of Living Biblically - One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (Abridged, Standard format, CD, Abridged edition)
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The Year of Living Biblically - One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (Abridged, Standard format, CD, Abridged edition)
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Now a TV series Living Biblically streaming on CBS All Access! From
the New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a
fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. A.J.
Jacobs chronicles his hilarious and thoughtful year spent obeying
as literally as possible the tenets of the Bible. 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.
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