c. 6–12 CECanonical anchor
Luke’s twelve-year-old Jesus remains in Jerusalem among teachers
Luke 2:41–52; the Second Road observer is fictional.
Eighteen years between two canonical anchors
The timeline marks what Luke and Paul actually say and where the modern reconstruction enters.
Age twelveSacred historical fiction
The novel’s Covenant of the Cord
Inspired by Zoroastrian initiation, but no source links Jesus to navjote or the kusti.
Ages twelve to fifteenSacred historical fiction
House of Questions and early Magian instruction
Good Mind, Asha, Daniel, parables, and the Father beyond borders.
Ages fourteen to eighteenSacred historical fiction
Journeys through gardens, wells, Gerizim, and Babylonian diaspora communities
Real historical settings used for invented travel stories.
Ages sixteen to twentySacred historical fiction
Healing apprenticeship and development of parabolic teaching
The Gospel’s later themes are foreshadowed without claiming direct sources.
Contemporary with Jesus’s youthHistorical anchor plus fiction
Saul’s formation in Tarsus and Jerusalem
Paul’s self-descriptions ground the parallel; childhood scenes are invented.
Ages twenty-three to twenty-sevenSacred historical fiction
Encounters with Pharisaic, Sadducean, Samaritan, and apocalyptic worlds
Historically real disagreements carried through fictional individuals.
Ages twenty-six to twenty-eightSacred historical fiction
The Magian Council tests the expected helper
Jesus rejects worship, political machinery, and the throne.
Late twentiesSacred historical fiction
Joseph’s fictional death and the crisis of paradise
The canonical texts do not narrate Joseph’s death.
c. 29–30 CESacred historical fiction
The final journey east and the archive of failed signs
Jesus meets the final imagined survivor of Matthew’s Magi.
About age thirtyCanonical handoff
Jesus walks toward the Jordan
Luke 3:23 dates the beginning of ministry to about thirty.
After Jesus’s deathCanonical and Pauline anchor
Saul persecutes the Jesus movement and later claims revelation
Reserved for a later Pauline Turn site; only foreshadowed here.
Threshold of Luke 3Canonical threshold
The wilderness voice ends the missing years
The fiction stops before Luke dates the public world and narrates John, baptism, and Jesus at about thirty.