Currently-Hawaii and San Francisco, CaliforniaĪ 100-year-old ex-seminarian and a demon set off together on a psychotic road trip.Ĭhrist's wisecracking childhood pal is brought back from the dead to chronicle the Messiah's 'missing years'.Ī mild-mannered thrift shop owner takes a job harvesting souls for the Grim Reaper.

Education-Ohio State Univ., Brooks Inst.

Underlying it all is the story of his unconsummated love for an incomprehensibly beautiful woman named Mary the Magdalene.īiff reveals the human side of the Son of God, and paints a vivid historical picture of what life might really have been like in Christ's time. He describes the escapades of the Son of God - from his time as a stone-cutter's apprentice in Nazareth to his journeys to modern-day Afghanistan, China, and India in search of the magi who attended his birth to his return to his homeland to gather his disciples and fulfill his destiny. While negotiating the terrors, curiosities, and conveniences of modern life, Biff transcribes the untold story of his and Josh's youth. Lamb is the story of Biff writing his and his buddy Jesus Christ's (aka Joshua's) story it's the hilarious inside scoop on the could-be origins of hundreds of tales we recognize from the Bible and from popular culture.

What do we really know about the Messiah's formative years? Enter Christopher Moore's Biff, resurrected by the angel Raziel and held captive in a New York City hotel room until he records a new gospel. But until he really started getting the word of God out there, there's little recorded information about his life.

We know all about Christ's birth, and even more about Christ's death. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

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