Jacqueline Carey's Official Author Site Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff Study Guide & Plot Summary| Christopher Moore Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections: This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff by Christopher Moore. Heaven assigns the task to raise Biff, a childhood friend of Jesus Christ, from the dead to an angel named Raziel. Under Raziel's supervision, Biff must write his gospel to explain what Jesus, whose Hebrew name is Joshua, did before he started preaching. Biff writes about his childhood experiences with Joshua and how Joshua does not know how to be the Messiah. The journey also involves high adventure. The two boyhood friends, now young men, return to Israel, where Joshua begins his ministry. While at the Temple in Jerusalem, Joshua loses his temper and overturns the moneychangers' tables.
Laurell K Hamilton Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal is the sixth novel by absurdist author Christopher Moore , published in 2002. In this work the author seeks to fill in the "lost" years of Jesus through the point of view of Jesus' childhood pal, "Levi bar Alphaeus who is called Biff". The original edition of Lamb was issued in hardback and paperback and contains an afterword by the author explaining some of the background of the novel. In 2007 a special gift edition was published, with a second afterword by Moore, recollecting his trip to Israel for research. According to the author, the producer-director Peter Douglas (with Vincent Pictures) has purchased the film rights to the novel. [ 1 ] Plot summary [ edit ] Biff has been resurrected in the present day to complete missing parts of the Bible , supposedly under the watchful eye of the angel Raziel , who turns out to be more interested in soap operas and Spider-man on the television in their hotel. Literary allusions [ edit ]
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