My Jesus Year
A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith
New York, NY : HarperCollins, c2008.
Format: Book
Edition: 1st ed.
Description: x, 252 p. ; 24 cm.
Part memoir, part spiritual quest, part anthropologist's mission, Benyamin Cohen's My Jesus Year is a hu morous, personal, ultimately inspirational exploration of Evangelical Christianity by the son of an Orthodox Rabbi on his journey through America's Bible belt. Winner of the Georgia Writer Association's Georgia Author of the Year Award, selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of the Year and by USA Today as one of the Top Eight Books to Help Rekindle the Hanukkah Spirit, My Jesus Year is an unorthodox and unforgettable search for universal answers and common truths.
Contents:
Son of a preacher man -- How to find a wife in 100 dates -- Mission impossible -- Welcome to God's house -- Pray ball -- God's vip section -- Getting high on the High Holidays -- Any given Sunday -- The prince and I -- Christmas at the Cohens -- Wrestling with God -- Gut check -- G.I. Jew -- Upon this rock -- My first and last Easter -- Latter Day Saints and latter day aints -- Monk'd -- Jesus's medicine cabinet -- Confessions of a Catholic pretender -- A man for all seasons -- Paradise lost and found.
Subjects:
Cohen, Benyamin
Jews -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography.
Children of rabbis -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography.
Religious biography -- United States
Christian life -- United States
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Biography
Cohen, Benyamin
Jews -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography.
Children of rabbis -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography.
Religious biography -- United States
Christian life -- United States
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Biography
ISBN:
9780061245176
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Cohen, Benyamin | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |