Frank Ribbons has long been interested in the Biblical narratives and thought that they should be better known than they are. This is his first attempt to try and get them appreciated by a wider audience because, in and of themselves, many of them are gripping yarns. They just tend to get lost in the sheer size and complexity of the Bible. Every aspect of the Biblical narrative up to the end of 1st Samuel has been included in this fictional expansion of the story.