Today a TV series Living Biblically airing in CBS!

From the New York Times bestselling writer of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. A.J. Jacobs chronicles his amusing and thoughtful season spent obeying―as literally as feasible―the tenets from the Bible.

Raised in a secular family but increasingly thinking about the relevance of faith in our contemporary world, A.J. Jacobs chooses to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the Bible as actually as about THE ENTIRE YEAR of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to check out the Bible as Literally as Possible easy for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But also to obey the hundreds of less publicized rules: to avoid wearing clothes made of mixed fibers; to try out a ten-string harp; to stone adulterers.

The resulting spiritual journey reaches once funny and profound, reverent and irreverent, personal and universal and will make you see history’s most influential book with new eyes.

Jacobs’s search transforms his life even more radically than the calendar year spent reading the complete Encyclopedia Britannica for The Know-It-All. His beard develops therefore unruly that he’s regularly mistaken for a member of ZZ Best. He immerses himself in prayer, is inclined sheep in the Israeli desert, fights idolatry, and tells the overall truth in all situations-much to his wife’s chagrin.

Through the entire book, Jacobs also embeds himself in a cross-section of communities that take the Bible literally. He travels a Kentucky-based creationist museum and sings hymns with Pa Amish. He dances with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn and will Scripture research with Jehovah’s Witnesses. He discovers ancient biblical intelligence of startling relevance. And he wrestles with apparently archaic rules that baffle the twenty-first-century mind.

Jacobs’s extraordinary executing yields unexpected epiphanies and difficulties. A book that will charm readers both secular and spiritual, The Year of Living Biblically is definitely part Cliff Notes to the Bible, part memoir, and part look into worlds unimaginable. Thou shalt not have the ability to put it down.