Chosen and Scattered Collection - Books One – Five: Before the Name 'Black' Existed, The Twelve, The Assyrian Wound, By the Waters of Babylon & 70 AD

Who are we, really?

That question has followed people across centuries, across oceans, across the ruins of empires that rose to answer it and fell without ever quite succeeding.

Chosen and Scattered: Books One–Five carries the covenant story from Abraham's first calling through two national catastrophes - the Assyrian deportation of Israel's northern tribes and the Babylonian exile of Judah, into the fire that left Jerusalem in ruins in 70 AD. Written for the seeker, the student of Scripture, and the believer willing to sit with a hard question rather than reach past it for comfort, this five-book collection draws on biblical interpretation, documented history, archaeology, community tradition, and cultural comparison, and names each form of evidence for exactly what it is.

Inside this collection:

• Book One - Before the Name 'Black' Existed: who were the ancient Hebrews, and how did a melanated Semitic people from the ancient Near East become racially reclassified by the modern world?


• Book Two - The Twelve: Sons of Israel, Fathers of Nations: Jacob's twelve sons, their prophetic blessings in Genesis 49, and how those words have been read in relation to modern peoples.


• Book Three - The Assyrian Wound: When the North Was Taken: the fall of the Northern Kingdom in 722 BC and the unanswered question of the ten lost tribes.


• Book Four - By the Waters of Babylon: Judah in Exile: the destruction of Solomon's Temple, the grief of displacement, and the prophets who spoke into it.


• Book Five - 70 AD: The Fire That Scattered the Remnant: Rome's destruction of Jerusalem, and the start of a scattering that would only grow wider.

This is not a book of racial pride, political grievance, or manufactured certainty. It is a careful, sourced reading of Scripture and history side by side — the first half of one continuous story that Books Six–Ten carries the rest of the way.