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.