The childhood the Gospels skipped.
Son of Man · The Nazarene Saga · Book 1
The hidden years, from Bethlehem to the road out of Nazareth. Begin here.
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Son of Man
The Nazarene Saga · Book 1
The childhood the Gospels skipped. Three foreigners cross three borders, following a signal they have tracked for eleven months. They find a girl who has just given birth in a stable, a carpenter holding a tool like a weapon, and a newborn whose eyes do not wander the way a newborn's should.
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Far Country
The Nazarene Saga · Book 2
BEFORE THE JORDAN, THERE WAS THE ROAD. At twenty-five, Yeshua leaves Nazareth with a foreign merchant and his twelve-year-old son. He walks out of his village and into the years the Gospels leave blank.
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Narrow Gate
The Nazarene Saga · Book 3
This is the Jesus you were always meant to know. Narrow Gate is book 3 of the Nazarene saga. It opens at the Jordan, where John is putting farmers and tax collectors under the water — and the rhythm of his whole morning breaks when Jesus comes down through the crowd.
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EKO writes and draws stories about faith and history. His books include The Nazarene, a saga following Jesus from childhood into the public life. In the Unsealed Archives, he treats history as a crime scene.
When he isn’t writing, he rides motorcycles in the mountains and goes surfing, teaching his children what the wilderness teaches. He shares new writing and letters with readers on Substack.
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02Aaron Swartz, Julian Assange, and the crime of copying
03The end of the world always comes with a membership fee.