Beyond Biblical Narrative

There is a certain kind of reader this book was written to find, someone who prays, or once prayed, or still feels the pull to, but who has also lain awake wondering whether the faith they inherited is the only truth possible, or simply the first one someone happened to tell them.
If you have ever felt that doubt and never had the courage to say it aloud, not to your priest, not to your rabbi, not even to yourself, Beyond the Biblical Narrative was not written to take your faith away. It was written to keep you company inside it.
The book begins with what you already know, Adam, the flood, Abraham. Then it goes after everything no one ever told you about them, that a Sumerian god was already shaping men from the same clay before Genesis was written, that a nearly four thousand year old tablet, deciphered just over a decade ago, describes a round ark built centuries before Noah's, that on the other side of the world a people has been singing its own origin for sixty five thousand years, with no concept of original sin, no chosen people, no end of days, and yet arrived at the same questions you carry.
At the heart of the book, Abraham meets that people, in the figure of an elder, beneath the red shadow of Uluru. It is not a conversion scene. It is a scene of listening, the same listening you may be searching for, without quite knowing how to name it, every time you walk past a church, a synagogue, a temple, and feel belonging and questioning at once.
I did not write this book with the answer already in hand. I wrote it because I needed to ask, too. And if you have read this far, you are probably already ready to ask the same question with me, this time without fear of what the answer might mean for your faith.