![]() ![]() Evans gives her stunt focus by narrowing it to Biblical instructions for women. ( Slate’s own David Plotz, another secular Jewish writer, blogged the Bible and wrote a book about the experience.) Conversely, Evans’ intended audience doesn’t think the Bible is a kooky ancient document-they believe it is the living, inerrant word of God and arrange their lives according to their interpretation of it. Jacobs attempted a similar feat with his 2007 best-seller The Year of Living Biblically, but Jacobs is a humorist and commentator, not a believer. Her Easter weekend in the tent was part of a project called “A Year of Biblical Womanhood,” in which she is following all the Bible’s instructions for women as precisely as possible for 12 months. (That’s kind of the point of the New Testament.) But she is an earnest evangelical, with a serious influence within the insular world of conservative Christianity. Evans is not a Biblical literalist, and even fundamentalist Christians no longer hew to the Old Testament’s specific laws for daily life. ![]()
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