I was not familiar with Christopher Moore and his absurdist novels, and I probably never would have been had not my daughter, the librarian, suggested this book to me. Here, I must stop and admit to another gap in my literary knowledge. Even though we know how the whole thing is going to end, it is hard not to laugh out loud at Biff's very human experiences and reactions. At this point, he KNOWS he is the Son of God and that he is supposed to do something big, he just isn't entirely sure what it is.Īs Joshua learns eternal truths, Biff learns all about sinning and invents sarcasm, a tool which he uses freely in his gospel. From each of the Wise Men, Joshua learns important things that he will incorporate in his teachings when he begins his ministry. In Biff's telling (in American vernacular English, courtesy of that gift of tongues), those were adventure-packed years that took him and Joshua to the East in search of the three Wise Men who had attended Joshua's birth. There, Biff will be required to write his gospel - the story of his life with Jesus (Joshua bar Joseph, in this telling), particularly the missing years between Joshua's debating with the rabbis at the temple when he is twelve and the beginning of his ministry when he is about thirty-years-old. With the money and Biff's newly acquired gift of tongues, they head out to America, where they land in a hotel in St.

After Biff has returned to human form and has retrieved the '30 pieces of silver' that had bought Judas' betrayal, the angel and he sell the silver on the Jerusalem antiquities market for $20,000. More than 2000 years after the death of Jesus of Nazareth, the angel Raziel is sent to ressurect his childhood friend, Biff, from the dust of Jerusalem.

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