Book Review: The Year of Living Biblically

I read this book earlier this year.  I had read some of A.J. Jacobs’s other books and found them (mostly) to be very interesting.  This book explores Mr. Jacob’s quest to live his life according to the Old Testament.  He explores many of the rules that are listed in those texts which, as a Jewish person myself, I found to be very interesting.  Since I’m not very religious, there are plenty of rules that I have heard about (like many of the rules the Hasidic Jews follow), but didn’t quite understand.  This book explores many of those rules (and lots of others I had never heard about) and explains what the theory is supposed to be behind them.  It was interesting and fun to read about Mr. Jacobs’s exploration of these rules, which he did from a realistic and funny point of view.

I would definitely recommend this book and am glad I read it.