“The Sons of Noah” is the fourth book in the “Days of Noah Series” and one I’ve been looking forward to writing for quite some time! It’s available on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJ7Q51BP

While I had written a preliminary draft of the novel a few years ago, the latest archaeological discoveries concerning the likely location of Noah’s Ark, the First Villages, and also the possible location of Babel, warranted several new directions for the series. Also, rather than merely draft one book at a time, I decided that it would be best to simultaneously draft the next several novels that spanned the time from the Landing to the Dispersion to improve consistency, character development, and cohesion with the Biblical narratives of Genesis 8-11.

The primary discoveries for this change are the shifting of the Noah’s Ark site to southeastern Turkey near Karaca Dag, and the Babel site from southern Mesopotamia to that area of Turkey as well. In 2021, Kenneth C. Griffith and Darrell K. White wrote a paper in the “Answers Research Journal” titled “Candidate site for Noah’s Ark, Altar, and Tomb” which focused on a new possible location for the landing of Noah’s Ark in the mountains of Karaca Dag in eastern Turkey rather than the traditional Mount Ararat site, the Durupinar site, Mount Cudi, or Mount Suleiman in northern Iran. I found their arguments to be quite compelling, particularly with their follow-up paper about Babel: “An Upper Mesopotamian Location for Babel”.

The basis for their papers was the PPNA (Pre-pottery Neolithic-A) sites of southeastern Turkey and the origin of several domesticated plant and animal species. Genetic technologies and their related sciences continue to make new discoveries as to not only our origins, but also the origins of ceramics, domestication of wheat, olives, grapes, horses, dogs, and other animals we take for granted. While evolutionary theory espouses that early humans came from East Africa in the region of Ethiopia and Sudan (ancient Cush), the oldest archaeological and genetic evidence all point to the true place of origin being in the upper Fertile Crescent, specifically eastern Turkey in the region surrounding Karaca Dag. I’ve marked the location for the possible Ark ballast site in Google Maps.

Within the region of southeast Turkey (near the top of the Fertile Crescent) are the oldest evidences of pottery, domestication, PPNA sites, and nearby are the oldest, most sophisticated sites that demonstrate that ancient man was quite sophisticated, cultured, organized, and intelligent – the examples being Boncuklu Tarla, Karahan Tepe, and of course, Göbekli Tepe. Several of these sites are mentioned in the new book and the subsequent ones as well.

With the decision to go in this new direction, I’ve lightly revised the Prologues and Epilogues of the first three books of the series to fit into the new framework/settings (the ‘modern’ portions of the series). The full list of books of the Days of Noah Series are:

1. “Rise of the Anshar”
2. “Fountains of the Deep”
3. “Chains of Darkness”
4. “The Sons of Noah”
5. “The Table of Nations”
6. “The Kings of Old”
7. “The Land of Canaan”
8. “The Castors of Giza”

Even though “The Castors of Giza” novel was written more than a decade ago, I’m bringing that into the series to conclude the story of Noah and his sons, as well as doing some revisions to make it flow better with the rest of the series. I had also considered including the novelization of the Book of Job (“Out of the Whirlwind”) as book 7, but it seemed better to just include that as a standalone story in the set rather than actually being part of the series.

Also, I’ve recently updated the cover for “Out of the Whirlwind” to include a “behemoth” grazing in a river, as described in Job 40 for additional effect, as well as just giving the book a light refresh.

The current schedule for the series is for it to conclude by the late 2026, with each book being released every several months.

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