While Raziel watches daytime television with nearly unparalled obsessiveness, Biff writes his Gospel.Īccording to Biff, the untold years of Jesus’ boyhood and young adulthood were rich with adventures and filled with insights into the person and the character of the Messiah. He ends up in the United States in the late twentieth century, being watched over by the angel Raziel in a hotel room. The premise of the book: two thousand years after Jesus’ crucifixion, his best friend from childhood, a man named Levi, called “Biff,” has been brought back to life in order to tell the story of Jesus as only his closest companion would know it. It is by turns historically accurate and anachronistic, biblically reliable and remarkably imaginative, and always a rollicking ride. This book is also laugh-out-loud-and-weep funny, and presents Jesus as a friend you would like to have known in his youth.Ĭhristopher Moore’s insightful and creative look into the life of Jesus has become one of my “top ten all-time favorites” in the fiction category.
It contains all manner of “adult” themes: graphic sexual passages, brutal violence, frightening political scenes, and so forth.
Lamb is one of the most outrageous “Jesus” books you will ever read.
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