Length10h 3m
About this audiobook
Jerusalem, AD 40. Four men are dead. The killer is one of their own.
Simeon of Meroë has served the Kandake of Ethiopia as a royal treasury examiner for twenty years - a man who finds what is hidden, exposes what has been falsified, and names what others overlook. He is also something else: a secret believer, baptized by a deacon named Philip in the desert outside Gaza after a chance encounter on a desert road changed everything. He carries in his chest two verses that have never stopped arguing with each other. One says he is excluded. The other says he is welcomed by name.
For readers of Francine Rivers, Mesu Andrews, and Geraldine Brooks, A Name Better Than Sons is a literary historical novel that takes the Bible seriously as literature, as theology, and as the living story of real people who had to decide, week by week, what their faith cost them.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Christian & Inspirational
Length10 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 21, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
1817. Testing the Teachers
21. The Lion’s Treasury
1918. The Wrong Man
32. A Queen’s Concern
2019. Struck Down
43. Scripture and Scars
2120. The Scroll and the Promise
54. The Desert Road Again
2221. Reconstructing the Pattern
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65. The Dead Brother
2322. Setting the Snare
76. Leaders and Lines
2423. The Gathering
87. Another Blow
2524. The False Peace
98. A Vow in the Holy City
2625. Strike of the Zealot
109. Factions in the Flock
2726. The Pattern Revealed
1110. Witnesses and Alibis
2827. Zeal for Your House
1211. Scripture as Weapon
2928. Judgment Among the Saints
1312. Walls Within the House
3029. A Name Better Than Sons
1413. Rumors of the Temple
3130. Return of the Envoy
1514. Zealot Shadows
3231. The Road Home
1615. Blood on the Doorway
3332. Ethiopia Shall Stretch Out Her Hands
1716. Lines in the Sand
34About the author
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