The year of living biblically answers the question what if a modern day american followed every single rule in the bible as literally as possible not just the famous rules the ten commandments and love thy neighbor though certainly those but the hundreds of oft ignored ones dont wear clothes of mixed fibers grow your beard stone adulterers aj jacobs experiment is . The year of living biblically one mans humble quest to follow the bible as literally as possible is a book by a j jacobs an editor at esquire magazine published in 2007 the book describes a year that the author said he spent trying to follow all the rules and guidelines he could find in the bible which turned out to be more than 700. Yes the year of living biblically is an eye opening often hilarious look at jacobs attempts to follow the rules of the bible as literally as possible for a full year from following the ten commandments to eating crickets building a hut in his living room and even using a pebble to stone an adulterer. The year of living biblically didnt have the same success as his other works jacobs who is known for immersing himself in a project for a year and then writing about it was warned by family that maybe this wasnt the best concept for a follow up to his popular know it all book and they may have been right