In all, he ends up with more than seven hundred rules he is required to follow. He begins by reading the Bible in its entirety and making notes each time the Bible makes a reference to how people should live. Jacobs begins from a position of agnosticism, and finds that the psychological theory of cognitive dissonance (behavior shapes belief) applies – the more he behaves as if he is deeply religious, the more he feels genuinely religious. He does this in part to make an attempt to understand which parts of the Bible are spiritually enriching for modern man and which are antiquated and even silly and in part because he is a new father and is responsible for the religious education of his young son. He proposes an experiment – for the entirety of one year, he will attempt to follow the Bible as literally as possible, without exception. In this story, Jacobs, who is admittedly “Jewish in the same way that The Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant”, decides that he needs to acquaint himself with the Bible. Jacobs since I read “The Know-It-All”, his book detailing his quest to become one of the smartest people in the world by reading Encyclopedia Brittanica cover to cover. Genre: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Religion Full Title: The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
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