The Book of Susan

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The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish manuscripts found in caverns near Qumran on the northeastern side of the Dead Sea in 1947. These scrolls, from approximately 2,000 years ago, illuminate ancient Israel’s history, literature, and religious thought, notably during the Second Temple Period. Since their 1947 discovery, academics have been eager to find other scrolls. Due to the delay in publishing and accessing some Dead Sea Scrolls, especially from the 1950s to the 1990s, conspiracy theories abound, but there is no known evidence of religious or theological censorship. 

The Book of Susan is a work of fiction about the discovery of four scrolls from Jesus' final years located in a Judean Desert cave that allege the church suppressed same-sex relationships. These Dead Sea Scrolls did not recognize homosexuality as a sexual orientation or identity. Ancient literature often viewed same-sex encounters as behaviors rather than identity markers. 

Due to fears about offending religious believers, The Book of Susan was attempted several times and stalled. I believe we achieved a balance of scripture with the stories of an exceptional Roman women who loved only other women.