false 495395 18 What would it require for a person to live all the commandments of the Bible for an entire year? That is the question that animates this hilarious, quixotic, thought-provoking memoir from Jacobs (The Know-It-All). He didn't just keep the Bible's better-known moral laws (being honest, tithing to charity and trying to curb his lust), but also the obscure and unfathomable ones: not mixing wool with linen in his clothing; calling the days of the week by their ordinal numbers to avoid voicing the names of pagan gods; trying his hand at a 10-string harp; growing a ZZ Top beard; eating crickets; and paying the babysitter in cash at the end of each work day. (He considered some rules, such as killing magicians, too legally questionable to uphold.) In his attempts at living the Bible to the letter, Jacobs hits the road in highly entertaining fashion to meet other literalists, including Samaritans in Israel, snake handlers in Appalachia, Amish in Lancaster County, Pa., and biblical creationists in Kentucky. Throughout his journey, Jacobs comes across as a generous and thoughtful (and, yes, slightly neurotic) participant observer, lacing his story with absurdly funny cultural commentary as well as nuanced insights into the impossible task of biblical literalism. - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2325789 book 9 10 2007 The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible total:6488|5:1294|4:2946|3:1744|2:419|1:79| 6488 24424 11267 1947 1 27 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 09:06:47 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 09 13:18:15 -0800 2007
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He does indeed find it d...more...]]> 4 12 false false Sun Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 15:08:43 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 15:48:22 -0700 2008 First, To: A.J. if you have Googled yourself thank you for such an interesting and wonderful read! I loved your honesty.
To: A.J.'s Dad you can click that you liked this review.
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"The Year of Living Biblically" didn't have the same success as his other works. Jacobs,...more...]]> 3 6 false false Mon Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 16:44:38 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 09:12:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 18:10:17 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 20:11:29 -0700 2008
So, when he's not writing for Esquire, he writes b...more...]]> 2 3 false false Thu May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 12:23:32 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 12:41:07 -0700 2008 The Year of Living Biblically starts out pretty fine: I chuckled; I was interested to find out what would come of it all. Halfway through, however, I'd pretty much had enough. Jacobs is a little too smug (though he puts on the requisite veil of "Oh, God! I'm so bad at this religion thing!"...more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 19:04:47 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 03:47:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 4 false false Sat Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 06 15:27:46 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 22 15:27:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false false Tue Dec 18 21:39:36 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 11 22:24:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 5 false false Tue Aug 26 09:59:40 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 10:05:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 22 18:45:10 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 18:46:05 -0700 2008 This title is ok. I wanted it to be really good. I also want people who show up in the store looking for a religious title to pick this up by accident, but only because I don't always behave biblically myself. I just think it would be amusing.

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