The Life of Jesus Christ

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal sounds like it has to be disrespectful and profane — the definition of blasphemous  — and I doubt even the author would disagree that it is. It begins, “You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don’t. Trust me. I was there. I know.” With this, Moore neatly sidesteps the problem faced by any recounter of the gospel narrative: How suspenseful can a story be, when everybody already knows how it ends?

The novel begins in modern-day American and contains Buddhist and Hindu subplots. In recounting the unknown years of Jesus’ life, Moore explains the origin of the Easter bunny and other mysteries.

One MySpace blogger, praising the “rad sense of humor,” promises that the book will make you pee in your pants. She quotes a particularly vulgar passage to make her point. It seems to be the most quoted passage of the  book.

On the plus side, some of Amazon.com’s Christian customers say that the novel gave them a stronger sense of Jesus’ humanity — which, of course is the core of the gospel:  The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

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