The year of living biblically : one man's humble quest to follow the Bible as literally as possible

Avoiding shellfish was easy. The stoning of adulterers proved a little more difficult - and potentially controversial.

Was it enough to walk up to an adulterer and gently touch them with a stone?

Even that could be grounds for accusations of assault, especially with female adulterers in Manhattan.

So what's a good Bible-reading boy to do?Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J.

Jacobs decides to dive in head first and attempt to obey the hundreds of less-publicized rules.

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