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Guest: A.J. Jacobs

In The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, A.J. Jacobs read the Bible and amassed a list of more than 700 rules he'd try to obey for 12 months. An agnostic, raised as a secular Jew and currently the editor at large for Esquire magazine, he not only wanted to follow the obvious laws like the Ten Commandments, but also the seemingly obscure ones, like not wearing clothing of mixed fibers and not shaving the sides of his beard. This year-long spiritual experiment affected every aspect of his life and deepest beliefs.