Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

core novel 2002 Christopher Moore's Shared World

Record

First published	2002
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	4.22 (185,556 ratings, collected 2026-11-04)
First-edition ISBN	9780380978403
Internal chronology	3

Synopsis

Lamb imagines the missing years of Jesus's life as told by his childhood friend Levi, known as Biff. Biff is resurrected in the 20th century and housed in a motel room, where he must supply the parts of the story the Bible never recorded. An angel named Raziel, who is not very capable, watches over him. Biff describes growing up beside a boy named Joshua. The two travel east to learn from the three wise men. Biff is the sarcastic, practical counterweight to his friend's idealism. The book is a comic fantasy.

Where it sits

• Universe: Christopher Moore's Shared World
• Series: Other Christopher Moore Novels core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
• Author: Christopher Moore

Notes

• First published in hardcover in March 2002.
• From the series record (Other Christopher Moore Novels): Three standalone fantasy comedies by Moore that share minor characters and cameos with his other books.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

• Publication order, within the series Other Christopher Moore Novels: position 3 of 3: previous Island of the Sequined Love Nun (1997)
• Internal chronology, within Christopher Moore's Shared World: position 11 of 11: previous Bite Me (2010)

Sources

• Wikipedia: Christopher Moore (author)
• Christopher Moore official site: books
• Bookstores.com listing (hardcover, William Morrow, 1 Mar 2002)
• Wikipedia: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ%27s Childhood Pal

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