Lamb the book of biff6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s very funny and outrageous and in the worst possible taste, as in this scene: Generations of Christian theologians would probably nit-pick that teaching to death, and, yet, really, isn’t that the heart of Christianity? “You should be nice to people, even creeps.” Here, for instance, is how Biff summarizes the gist of virtually every sermon he ever heard Joshua give: That gives you an idea of the general tone of Lamb and of Levi who is called Biff, one in a long line of Christopher Moore characters who are ribald, raunchy, cheeky, confused, intrepid, vibrant and - did I mention? - randy smart alecks with a heart of gold. It’s one of the things I should have asked him. It’s Greek for the Hebrew word messiah, meaning anointed. Jesus, he explains, is a Greek translation of the Hebrew name Yeshua. As Biff notes at the beginning of Christopher Moore’s comic 2002 novel Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, his friend’s name was Joshua. ![]()
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