The Year of Living Biblically
Author | : A J Jacobs |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2012-01-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781448135813 |
ISBN-13 | : 1448135818 |
Rating | : 4/5 (818 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Year of Living Biblically written by A J Jacobs and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.