Author(s): A. J. Jacobs

General

The 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? With female adulterers in Manhattan, even that could be grounds for accusations of assault. So what's a good Bible-reading boy to do? Jewish by birth, though not inclination, Jacobs added a familiarity with the New Testament to his - uncertain and rusty - knowledge of the Old. From the eccentricities and erratic support of his family to his encounters with cultists and Biblical scholars, "The Year of Living Biblically" tells his hilarious story of year trying to live up to - exactly - what the Good Book says.