Author: A. J. Jacobs
Translator: Soo-jeong Lee
Publisher: Sejong
2-volume set | 223*152mm
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About This Book
One Man's
Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
From the bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely
exploration of religion and 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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