He makes fun of Joshua and keeps him tethered to the earth. Biff is not the special one, but he is interesting in his own right and profoundly loyal. Imagine if Buffy had been written entirely from Zander’s point of view, or Harry Potter from Ron Weasley’s point of view.
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When the time comes for Joshua to go out into the world and learn how to be the Messiah, Biff gives up his dream of being the village idiot and/or marrying Mary Magdalene (or Joshua’s mother if something happens to Joseph) to go along and keep Josh safe. Biff also knows Joshua is the Messiah, but is pretty certain that he is incapable of taking care of himself. Joshua is frustrated by God’s silence and mourns for the things he will not have or experience.
He knows that he’s the Messiah, but struggles with what that means and has no idea how to save his people. He’s a real person who grows and evolves, has a sense of humor, and occasionally punches his best friend. As an agnostic from Texas, Jesus has never been my friend. Lamb is absurdly and sophmorically funny, thoughtful, philosophical, and towards the end, heart breaking. Levi is resurrected 2000 years after Joshua’s death and given the gift of tongues so that he can write his account. Biff and his gospel are missing from the New Testament for reasons made clear near the end of the book. Lamb is the story of Jesus (Joshua bar Joseph in the original Hebrew) as told by his childhood friend and traveling companion, Levi bar Alphaeus who is called Biff. “You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don’t.” – Biff
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