num_pages: 388
description: 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 headfirst and attempt to obey the hundreds of less-publicised 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.
language: English
title: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
titlecomplete: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
characters: A.J. Jacobs
genres: Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Christianity, Religion, Biography Memoir, Spirituality, Humor, Nonfiction, Christian
ratings_count: 67205
places: New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: NAIBA Book of the Year
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Simon & Schuster