Review: Year of Living Biblically
4.5 stars
Author A. J. Jacobs’ memoir takes us on a wickedly funny biblical quest from the Hasidic neighborhoods of New York City to the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., and to Israel to meet his eccentric, ex-guru Uncle Gil. Jacobs has set out to do the seemingly impossible: he will attempt to adhere literally to every commandment, recommendation, guideline, suggestion and law offered in the Holy Bible.
While loving your neighbor and honoring your mother and father seem easy enough, things get laugh-out-loud hilarious when Jacobs attempts to stone adulterers with pebbles, employs a slave/intern and tries not to be lustful while working at Esquire magazine. What starts out as an experiment to expose the fallacies of modern organized religion turns into a life-altering journey. Whether you’re Jewish, Muslim, Catholic or could not care less, read this book. Thou shall not regret it.
