To give you a visual, Jacobs spends his year wearing all white (at one point donning a robe with a roped belt), using a walking stick (that opens into a stool so as to avoid the unclean), grows his beard and sidelocks ( payot), won’t wear mixed fibers, plays a ten-string harp on the streets of NYC, attaches tassels to his clothing and literally wears the Ten Commandments around his wrist and head. It sounds very serious, and the subject matter certainly is, but this book is flat-out hilarious. My husband, who hasn’t read the book, knows about 1/3 of what is in it because I kept reading passages to him out loud. Jacobs spreads out his time with Orthodox Jews, Fundamentalists and Creationists and navigates the waters with incredible ease. His journey, which began as a new father’s concern for his son’s upbringing, leans more heavily on the Old Testament than the New. I really enjoyed Good Without God by Greg Epstein, so I thought that an agnostic Jew’s year-long quest to follow the Bible literally would be pretty interesting. Jacobs was not on my radar until Rebecca at Love at First Book told me (repeatedly) that it was fantastic. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible on October 1, 2007īuy the book: Amazon/Audible (this post includes affiliate links)
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