![]() "With Lamb, in my own goofy way, I attempted to fill that hole in history, but again, I am not trying to present history as might really have been, I'm simply telling stories."Īnd while our eyes are rarely out of sight of a funny one-liner or situation, there is also a real sense of the times and the history thanks to the author's attention to sensory and cultural detail in regard to the Roman, Middle Eastern, and Eastern societies of the first century. Many readers will be enticed to explore or re-explore the Old and New Testaments, as well as sacred texts of the world's other great religions. Christopher Moore had done his homework before writing this extraordinarily funny adult novel about how you would spend your adolescence preparing for a career on Earth as the Son of God. The story is told by Biff whom an angel has been brought back to life in the twenty-first century. So begins the tale that fills in the missing years of "the most influential human being to ever walk the face of the earth," the three decades between the manger scene and the Sermon on the Mount. It's one of the things I should have asked him. ![]() It's the Greek for messiah, a Hebrew word meaning anointed. Jesus is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Yeshua, which is Joshua. "The Savior removed the lizard from his mouth and said, 'Which part?' "By the way, his name was Joshua. "I watched the lizard die three more times before I said, 'I want to do that too.' He handed it back to his younger brother, who smote it mightily with the rock, starting or ending the whole process again. "Into his mouth went the lizard, and before I could accuse, out it came again, squirming and alive and ready to bite once again. Bewildered, he pushed the dead lizard around in the sand, and once assured that it wasn't going anywhere on its own, he picked it up and handed it back to his older brother. The younger boy played with the lizard for a while, teasing it until it reared its little head as if to bite, then he picked up a rock and mashed the creature's head. "The boy took the lizard from his mouth and handed it to his younger brother, who sat beside him in the sand. " 'Unclean! Unclean!' I screamed, pointing at the boy, so my mother would see that I knew the law, but she ignored me, as did all the other mothers who were filling their jars at the well. There was a light older than Moses in those eyes. His eyes were like dark honey and they smiled at me out of a mop of blue-black curls that framed his face. He was six, like me, and his beard had not come in fully, so he didn't look much like the pictures you've seen of him. Just the tail end and hind legs were visible on the outside the head and forelegs were halfway down the hatch. "The first time I saw the man who would save the world he was sitting near the central well in Nazareth with a lizard hanging out of his mouth. 3 August 2002 LAMB: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO BIFF, CHRIST'S CHILDHOOD PAL by Christopher Moore, HarperCollins/William Morrow, March 2002
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