Joshua — Volume 1

The novel reconstructs Exodus-era events by alternating scenes among Hebrew refugees, Egyptian officials, and temple observers, blending Biblical episodes with details drawn from Egyptian monuments and contemporary political turmoil. It traces the Hebrews' departure and desert wanderings across Goshen and the Sinai peninsula while depicting court conspiracies, dynastic succession, and the reactions of priests and citizens in the Nile Delta. Landscapes and antiquities are rendered with archaeological attention, and the narrative foregrounds human motives, religious conviction, and the friction between popular memory and state power, combining romantic invention with an effort toward historical and topographical fidelity.