You could live strictly according to the Bible for a year? American journalist recounts this experience in book

The American journalist AJ Jacobs decided to spend a year living according to biblical precepts, making an independent interpretation of scripture, what made this period a "fundamentalist maximum" as he defines himself in the introduction that resulted from this experience . The book The Year of Living Biblically ("The Year I lived Biblically") has not yet scheduled for release in Brazil.
Jacobs made a list of 72 pages with over 700 rules, which went from Genesis to Revelation, which arbitrate the life of an ordinary man, according to his interpretation of the Bible.
Defining the beginning of his book, "agnostic," a Jew, Jacobs broke his biblical journey of one year as follows: the first nine months would approach the Old Testament, with a longer historical period, which is also adopted by Judaism and the last three months would give priority to the New Testament.
During the period of one year Bible, Jacobs was turning into a kind of New Yorker Moses, let your beard grow, he began to use olive oil to wash my hair instead of conditioner and began to use white robes, whose tissues do not mix wool and linen.
For you who think that our would-be Blessed by the time someone was alone, this wrong. Who has not been very happy with the new look and customs it was his wife Julie.
The biblical year of the journalist, had great adventures and daring passages of the Bible, which were prohibited from touching any woman in her menstrual period, the feed control (which led him to eat candy crickets, amaze you) the stoning of an adulterer (which in turn was very funny outcome of history) and even keep a slave (which the journalist concerned, because in mid century. 21 is a crime, it was then, when it appeared an e-mail a university wanting particular stage, nothing more appropriate at the time, an unpaid internship agreement). Jacobs deprived himself even swearing during this year.
According to reports the book, Jacobs met with great difficulties encountered large, however, overcame the face lust, greed and routine prayers. However, the biggest challenge was the faith, the writer of the beginning of the book is a man of 38 years, with a child 2 years and a strong desire to raise a family. He has no faith, but misses a moral foundation for their own home and delves into religion, uncharted territory. In the first month, you feel uncomfortable doing prayers, near the end of the project, experience the mystical ecstasy - a rabbi dancing like crazy to the sounds of Beyonce, in celebration of 12 years (bat mitzvah) of a niece. But states still agnostic.
Apparently, Jacobs managed to find the meaning he sought. And an explanation, though not always convincing, for each of the biblical rules.
"If Jews accept as a metaphor for a divine order and a lot of Christians ignore the Old Testament, who follows the Bible literally, from start to finish? Nobody, not fundamentalists. Anyone planning to do a literal reading of the Bible just always choosing what will obey, "concluded Jacobs.
In 2007 a matter of the journalist Marcos Nogueira speaks magazine Super Interestingly some reports detailed the experience of A. J. Jacobs.
Source: Gospel +