The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible Audiobook (Free)

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a remarkable and timely exploration of religious beliefs as well as the Bible. A.J. Jacobs chronicles his amusing and thoughtful season spent obeying―as actually as possible―the tenets from the Bible.

Raised within a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our contemporary world, A.J. Jacobs chooses to dive in headfirst and try to obey the Bible as literally as about The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible possible for one complete calendar year. He vows to check out the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But also to obey the hundreds of much less publicized guidelines: to avoid wearing clothes manufactured from 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 can make you see history’s most influential book with new eyes.

Jacobs’s search transforms his lifestyle a lot more radically compared to the yr spent reading the complete Encyclopedia Britannica for The Know-It-All. His beard increases so unruly that he is regularly recognised incorrectly as a member of ZZ Top. He immerses himself in prayer, is likely sheep in the Israeli desert, battles idolatry, and tells the absolute truth in every 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 travels a Kentucky-based creationist museum and sings hymns with Pennsylvania Amish. He dances with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn and will Scripture study with Jehovah’s Witnesses. He discovers ancient biblical intelligence of startling relevance. And he wrestles with apparently archaic guidelines that baffle the twenty-first-century human brain.

Jacobs’s extraordinary undertaking yields unforeseen epiphanies and challenges. A book which will charm readers both secular and spiritual, THE ENTIRE YEAR of Living Biblically is certainly component Cliff Notes to the Bible, part memoir, and component consider worlds unimaginable. Thou shalt not really have the ability to place it down.