9/21/2023 0 Comments Biff jesus childhood friend![]() Biff has been resurrected in the present day to write a new gospel that will fill in missing details about Jesus’ life. The novel’s narrator is Jesus’ childhood best friend, whose given name of Levi is usually supplanted by the nickname Biff, the “slang word for a smack upside the head, something that my mother said I required at least daily from an early age” (9). This review will focus on these two themes in particular. While the exploration of Christ’s humanity is the primary focus of the novel, a second theme, also vividly and compellingly pursued, is the strength of the women in Christ’s life. Few of them, however, have managed to portray as complete, as realistic, as human a portrait of Jesus Christ as does Christopher Moore’s comic novel Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. New York: William Morrow, 2002.Īttempts within popular culture to humanize Jesus Christ have been as varied as the many artworks depicting a laughing Jesus South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s animated short featuring Jesus wrestling Santa Claus over the true meaning of Christmas the hippie revolutionary of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar Kazantzakis’s The Last Temptation of Christ and, of course, the horrifically tortured Messiah of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.Īll of these popular works capture some aspects of Christ’s humanity, whether it is his sense of humor, the ambivalence with regard to his mission on Earth, or the very real physical torments he suffered. ![]() Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. ![]()
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