Did you ever wonder what happened in Jesus’ life between ages 13and his 30s? Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal is a “tell-all” spoof on what may have happened from the perspective of the 13th disciple, whom was never identified in the Bible. Biff is number 13, not the perfect dozen as those who have read the Bible thought lived among Jesus and his travails. Christopher Moore, the author, approaches the book from a comedic view of how the disciples had sex, quarreled, and interacted through all of the well-known parables in Gospel verses of the New Testament written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The made-up stories include how the disciples came to be connected to Jesus. You see Biff is brought to life by an angel who tells the “blow-by-blow” leading to Jesus crucifixion on the cross. Moore uses sarcasm, spoofs, and other “tricks of the trade” to share the parables, the beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount, the Ten Commandments, you name it. For those who have not read the Bible, this will be a hard one to understand (a lot of inside jokes), but you know what… I got the jokes but didn’t really think they were funny. Maybe I am an uptight Catholic guy… but I really want to laugh. Moore does draw from the Biblical references often and he is able to connect his story to that in the Bible, I just thought Biff was a buffoon, yeah I know that’s what he was trying to do, just didn’t get the inside joke... even though I did… For me, not something I would pick up or recommend; too many other really good books out there.
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