The Joseph Dialogues

Joseph of Nazareth often the forgotten man in early Christian history comes to life in the compelling historical novel The Joseph Dialogues. At a time when Caesar Augustus has a firm grip on the Roman Empire Alexios a prominent tree farmer in a southern Syria Province befriends Joseph a young carpenter from Galilee. For forty years their friendship deepens and the purchase of lumber becomes secondary to their far-reaching dialogues about family faith and politics. Alexios a widower at an early age listens to news of Josephs puzzling delayed marriage to Mary and the subsequent births of their children. Joseph in turn is a strong support to Alexios in times of grief. The Joseph Dialogues is the third novel in The Holy Family trilogy. Though it is fiction the novel will give all readers a new appreciation of Joseph as a profoundly spiritual man who had a marked influence on his son Jesus in a turbulent time. Alan Sorem is also the author of two other novels in The Holy Family trilogy: Time: Jesus in Relationships (2013) and The Rabbis Daughter (2015). A contemporary novel Lucy Scotts Grand Stand: Age Is an Attitude not a Condition was published in 2014. He is a graduate of the College of Wooster Yale Divinity School and Fordham University (MBA). He lives in Louisville Kentucky.