Reddit reviews The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Living-Biblically-Literally/dp/0743291484

I lost it at “I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.”

Thou shalt read this book!

I read his book. The Year of Living Biblically, it was decent.

It's probably best not to know what it means.

You know there was that straw book that not particularly bright Christians would use to argue that some of the things in the bible are well intentioned, but just, like, outdated man? Well, some lady felt left out of the stupid party and wrote her own.

Examples include sleeping on the "corner of a roof" because Proverbs. This thing was published. And now she's on CNN to inform us "what the Evangelicals think" and has an alarmingly popular blog and twatter.

You might enjoy this book.

https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Biblically-Literally-Possible/dp/0743291484

try it for a couple years, you might get a book deal

My cousin once gave me the book A Year of Living Biblically. That's exactly what it was. I'm guessing the sitcom is inspired by the book.

If you want to live by the bible atleast do it right.

I was raised Jewish with all the schooling but never believed in a god. TzniusNotMyNameOh writes good questions to ask yourself. This year I refused to even be seated at the seder table (in the past I sat but didn't participate) because the entire Haggadah is just praising a god for killing other people. If you reread the stories of Lot and Dinah, they are also just as disgusting. And ask Orthodox about what they believe was the reason for god not intervening in the Holocaust- because he is too great for us to understand his reasons.

Some other books to check out:

God Is Not Great: How religion poisons everything by Christopher Hitchens

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman

The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs

Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels

interview with Nathan Englander

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx7irFN2gdI

http://www.theatheistrabbi.com/

http://jewishatheist.blogspot.com/

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/

http://i.imgur.com/YWUig.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/7UdCA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/rNOET.jpg

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/411550/its-raining-frogs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=6axdZAxyt2g&feature=endscreen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5JtxrR6msg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E67ommy95-o&feature=related

http://vimeo.com/25149893

Late to the game, but people always need more books...

The World Without Us was great, really interesting read about humanity's effects on the planet, with lots of references to expand on if you wanted to do that.

A Year of Living Biblically was interesting, even if you aren't a Christian or a Jew, if you find religion interesting.

And last but not least, Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam. This was made into the movie 'October Sky', and it's a memoir, one of the best I've ever read. But all the science of the rockets is in there too, I learned a lot about propellants and DeLavalle nozzles lol.

There were two people who spent a year trying to live according to the rules laid out in the Bible. One was a man and one was a woman. They each wrote a book. Life became very difficult for them. Just goes to show that Christians ignore most of the Bible.

https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Biblically-Literally-Possible/dp/0743291484/

https://www.amazon.com/Year-Biblical-Womanhood-Liberated-Covering/dp/1595553673

A guy tried to strictly follow the bible for 1 year: http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Living-Biblically-Literally/dp/0743291484

Haven't read it yet, but this guy tried.

I just started to comment and the post was removed. Highly recommend https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Biblically-Literally-Possible/dp/0743291484

This was the most fun book I've ever read about trying to do the impossible in a modern age. Really, you will laugh as you uncover gems of philosophy in how to become a better person.

He wrote a book. http://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Biblically-Literally-Possible/dp/0743291484/ref=la_B000APL8HO_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394131723&sr=1-1

Your google is broken.

• I LOVE the Life of Pi. I recommend reading the "editorial reviews" because Amazon does a terrible job summing up how great the book is.
  
• I also highly recommend the Ramayana this is the version I read. I like this retelling because, while long, it give you a sense of what this story truly is--an Indian epic.
  
• Books by Deepak Chopra (I suggest looking through reviews of diff books to see if any catch your eye).
  
• The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
  by the Dalai Lama because it is a very sincere book and I can almost visualize what he is saying.
  
• If you're in the mood for a bit of silliness, I recommend The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible because while being funny, it does teach you a little bit of the lesser known tenements of Judaism and Christianity.
  
• Last but not least, I recommend reading travel books. If you look for well written (read: not just looking for cheap laughs) books, even if they don't intend to, they inevitably talk about their personal views on the world--their personal religions.

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

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I am an author who helped put together the biggest family tree in history, spent a year obeying the Bible literally, and read all 33,000 pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. AMA!

Hi reddit. I’m AJ.

I’m an author, journalist, human guinea pig and also your cousin.

I’ve written four New York Times bestsellers -- The Year of Living Biblically, where I tried to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year, The Know-It-All, when I read all thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Drop Dead Healthy, where I tried to become the healthiest man in the world and My Life as an Experiment where I went undercover as a woman, lived by George Washington’s moral code, impersonated a movie star, and more. A TV series based on The Year of Living Biblically will debut on CBS in the winter.

More recently, I spent three years trying to build the biggest family tree in history. The quest took me around the world.. I drank beer with a US president, found myself singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and unearthed genetic links to Hollywood actresses and real-life scoundrels. In the end, I threw a global family reunion with about 10,000 people at 40 events around the world!

The experience inspired my new book, It’s All Relative. It’s about my family. And yours. Because it’s the same family. The book is about the extraordinary changes happening in family research and DNA, and how they have an impact on politics, race relations, health and happiness.

I’m very excited to be here today and talk to all my relatives. AMA about genealogy, writing, living Biblically, or whatever else reddit has in mind.

PROOF: https://twitter.com/ajjacobs/status/929020353766215680


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