01662cam a2200217 a 45000010009000000050017000090080041000260200015000670200018000820400013001000820019001131000018001322450120001502600040002703000029003105200967003396500020013069420007013269990017013339520094013501475879520170919110249.0070306s2007    nyua     b    001 0deng    a0743291476  a9780743291477  cPK-LaUMT00a220222bJAC-Y1 aJacobs, A. J.14aThe year of living biblically :bone man's humble quest to follow the Bible as literally as possible /cA.J. Jacobs  aNew York :bSimon & Schuster,c2007  a388 p. :bill. ;c25 cm.  aRaised in a secular family but interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to 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 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 embeds himself in a cross-section of communities that take the Bible literally: he tours a creationist museum and sings hymns with Amish; he dances with Hasidic Jews and does Scripture study with Jehovah's Witnesses. He wrestles with seemingly archaic rules that baffle the 21st-century brain, and he discovers ancient wisdom of startling relevance.--From publisher description. 0aChristian life.  cBK  c98261d98261  00104070a01b01d2017-09-19l0o220 JAC-Yp114178r2017-09-19 00:00:00w2017-09-19yBK