The next one they find is a Buddhist monk and he ends up meeting a yeti. The first one they find is an eastern magician and they are taught about potions and slight of hand. Joshua has decided to seek out the three wise men that attended his birth in the hopes they can teach him about what it takes to be the messiah. Joshua and Biff end up leaving right before Maggie is married off to the son of a Pharisse.

Both Biff and Joshua become smitten with her, though Joshua reveals that is not supposed to have any sort of physical relationship with a woman. During this time they also meet and befriend Maggie (Mary of Magdala). Biff’s father is a stone carver, so they decide to become his apprentices. So, being that he is 10, he and Biff are supposed to start learning some sort of trade to do for the rest of their lives. Joshua knows he is the son of god, but doesn’t know if he should be doing something in particular because he never received any signs from his father a.k.a god. Joshua performs some minor miracles, like bringing frogs back from the dead. This gospel would end up covering the missing years of Jesus’s life, you know, between birth and adulthood, the one’s not mentioned in the King James Bible (though some of Jesus’s childhood can be found in the gnostic gospel of Thomas).Īnyway, so the book starts off with Joshua and Biff around the age of 10. Biff is instructed to write a new gospel. Biff is brought back from the dead and kept under lock down in a hotel by the angel Raziel. The book is narrated by Biff, a near and dear friend of Joshua (Jesus). This book was highly entertaining and I had a hard time putting it down. So, the book I just finished is Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore.

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