“Before the law, before the temple, there was only the desert, the voice, and the covenant.”

The Patriarchs Trilogy

The acclaimed Old Testament literary epic by Croatian scholar Dr. Krešimir Šimić. A profound meditation on faith, trauma, and revelation—now translated into English for the first time.

The Three Volumes

Each novel explores the interior monologue and spiritual crisis of Genesis’s founding fathers. Available in instant downloadable EPUB and PDF editions.

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Book One

The History of Abraham

From Ur of the Chaldees into the silence of Mount Moriah. A psychological reimagining of the first patriarch wrestling with an inscrutable divine call.

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Book Two

The Confessions of Isaac

An Augustinian interior confession. Isaac reflects on the trauma of the altar, blindness, familial fracture, and the quiet dignity of endurance.

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Book Three

The Apocalypse of Jacob

Eschatological poetics and the nocturnal struggle at the ford of Jabbok. Jacob confronts his guilt, wrestling with the angel until daybreak.

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  • Exclusive 40-page companion monograph: The Poetics of the Patriarchs by Dr. Šimić
  • High-resolution historical maps of Ancient Near Eastern migrations
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Dr. Krešimir Šimić
About the Author

Dr. Krešimir Šimić

Dr. Krešimir Šimić (b. 1973) is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, where he serves as Head of the Chair for Old Croatian Literature. He also lectures in philosophy and holds appointments at the Catholic Faculty of Theology in Zagreb and the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Osijek.

A prominent scholar in biblical poetics, narratology, and hermeneutics, Dr. Šimić has authored over 70 scientific studies and 10 scholarly monographs. The Patriarchs Trilogy represents the synthesis of his lifetime of textual engagement with the Hebrew scriptures and continental literary theory.

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