{"id":59,"date":"2005-01-28T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2005-01-29T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/01\/28\/christopher-moores-lamb\/"},"modified":"2007-05-19T09:53:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T16:53:38","slug":"christopher-moores-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2005\/01\/christopher-moores-lamb\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Moore\u2019s \u201cLamb\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The book\u00adclub picked Chris\u00adtoph\u00ader Moore\u2019s Lamb: The Gos\u00adpel Accord\u00ading to Biff, Christ\u2019s Child\u00adhood Pal<\/a> as our Decem\u00adber book \u2014 the tim\u00ading being roughly appro\u00adpri\u00adate. The book is a fanci\u00adful nov\u00adel, depict\u00ading Christ\u2019s life in a some\u00adwhat pre\u00adpos\u00adter\u00adous but enjoy\u00adable way. It spends most of its time in the 30 years between Christ\u2019s birth and the begin\u00adning of his min\u00adistry, and has extra\u00advag\u00adant stor\u00adies told in a light-hearted way, as would befit someone who was a nor\u00admal human try\u00ading to cope with being Christ\u2019s friend. <\/p>\n

Most of the book\u00adclub mem\u00adbers enjoyed the book, but there was a def\u00adin\u00adite cor\u00adrel\u00ada\u00adtion between know\u00adledge of the Gos\u00adpels and the level of enjoy\u00adment. Those who knew how the Gos\u00adpel authors had depic\u00adted any giv\u00aden event found the occa\u00adsion\u00adally almost far\u00adcic\u00adal altern\u00adat\u00adive ver\u00adsion funny, where\u00adas the oth\u00aders did\u00adn\u2019t quite get it in sev\u00ader\u00adal cases. We spent some time at book\u00adclub com\u00adpar\u00ading the ver\u00adsions of stor\u00adies, dis\u00adcuss\u00ading the real role of Mary Mag\u00addalene and the fact that she was\u00adn\u2019t a har\u00adlot (des\u00adpite what the Cath\u00adol\u00adic Church and vari\u00adous trans\u00adla\u00adtions of the Bible claimed), touch\u00ading on the \u201cHoly Blood, Holy Grail\u201d and \u201cda Vinci Code\u201d ver\u00adsions of Christ\u2019s rela\u00adtion\u00adship with Mary Mag\u00addalene, and pos\u00adtu\u00adlat\u00ading why Levit\u00adi\u00adc\u00adus has so many laws about beha\u00adviour with animals.<\/p>\n

Chris\u00adtoph\u00ader Moore was wor\u00adried about the church reac\u00adtion to the book, but it was, I gath\u00ader, almost exclus\u00adively pos\u00adit\u00adive. The book does depict Christ (Joshua) in a pos\u00adit\u00adive way; Joshua is very human as well as being divine. He gets angry at God, cares about his friends, is slightly naive and very curi\u00adous. The descrip\u00adtions of his beha\u00adviour dif\u00adfer from those in the Gos\u00adpels by includ\u00ading more of the emo\u00adtion, which makes Joshua more like\u00adable and more approach\u00adable. The book won\u2019t make any\u00adone become a Chris\u00adti\u00adan, but it won\u2019t turn them off, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book\u00adclub reac\u00adtion to Chris\u00adtoph\u00ader Moore\u2019s \u201cLamb: The Gos\u00adpel Accord\u00ading to Biff, Christ\u2019s Child\u00adhood Pal\u201d \u2014 most people enjoyed it, but those who knew the Gos\u00adpels fairly well enjoyed it more than the others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}