The Year of Living Biblically
What happens when one non-religious Jew decides to live by every rule in the Bible for a year? Why, hilarity ensures, of course! Sounds like the premise of a new reality show, but actually it's the new book by A. J. Jacobs entitled The Year of Living Biblically.
The Year of Living Biblically answers the question: What if a modern-day American followed every single rule in the Bible as literally as possible. Not just the famous rules – the Ten Commandments and Love Thy Neighbor (though certainly those). But the hundreds of oft-ignored ones: don’t wear clothes of mixed fibers. Grow your beard. Stone adulterers.
Grow your beard? Does it really say that in the Bible? According to Jacobs, um, I mean the Bible, it does!
You shall not trim the corners of your beard (Leviticus 19:27)
My rabbinical beard became wildly uncomfortable, plus I was subjected to every beard joke in the history of facial hair, with about 412 ZZ Top references.
The "corners of your beard"? I wonder what that means. Are we all supposed to have mutton chops?
Read more of the wacky biblical rules here. And then get the book! The Year of Living Biblically is available in hard-cover now for only $14.99.
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Posted by Russell Neufeld at November 1, 2007 8:21 AM
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