![]() ![]() Get me some bandages.lots of bandages!"Īs a Lutheran minister, I've dared to share some excerpts from this book with folks in some of my Bible studies.but to get the full punch. "We're going to need some soap and water.and bandages. Imagine Jesus standing at the newly-opened grave of Lazarus, dead for four days: (paraphrase) "Lazarus, come out!" "An audacious and irreverent novel.guaranteed deeply to offend all right-thinking Christians.The style is a bizarre mix of serious and sometimes brutal historical fiction laced with black humor, wordplay, in-jokes, and sharp one-liners worthy of a good stand-up comedian."Ĭhristopher Moore's great book on the "in-between" years of Jesus (his adventures with his best friend 'Biff')will have even the most die-hard believer laughing until the tears come.and then elbowing strangers in the ribs and quoting paragraphs and pages! The only folks who might not like this are the most humorless fundamentalists who can't imagine that God might have a sense of humor. But there's no one who loves Josh more - except maybe "Maggie," Mary of Magdala - and Biff isn't about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior's pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years - except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams" (Philadelphia Inquirer). The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. Biff's version of the Jesus story emphasizes Jesus's goodness and innocence in a dog-eat-dog childhood world where Biff's role is to help his friend on the road to Messiah-hood. Louis hotel room to crank out a new gospel, watched over by a TV-addicted angel. Read more In 2001, Jesus brings back one of his boyhood friends-Levi, known fondly as Biff-from the dead and sets him up in a St. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years - except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely. ![]() In 2001, Jesus brings back one of his boyhood friends-Levi, known fondly as Biff-from the dead and sets him up in a St. ![]()
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