Brian Godawa Books in Order
Browse all Brian Godawa books in order, with series overviews, summaries, and where-to-start suggestions for his biblical fantasy novels and nonfiction.
Last updated: December 17, 2025
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Publication Order
20 books
Judah Maccabee - Part 2: Against the Gods of Greece
by Brian Godawa
2025
Continuing the Hanukkah story, Judah now leads an outnumbered guerrilla army against Antiochus’s forces while holding hostage a disillusioned Greek princess. As love, loyalty, and faith collide, he fights to reclaim the temple from idolatry amid a wider spiritual war among rival gods.
Judah Maccabee - Part 1: Abomination of Desolation
by Brian Godawa
2024
In second-century B.C. Jerusalem, mercenary Judah Maccabee longs for a quiet family life with his Greek-Jewish wife, Sophia. When Antiochus Epiphanes desecrates the temple and outlaws Torah, Judah must choose between safety and rebellion as unseen powers stir behind the empire.
Moses: Against the Gods of Egypt
by Brian Godawa
2021
Raised as a prince of Egypt, Moses discovers his Hebrew identity and flees into the wilderness. Years later he returns at Yahweh’s command to confront Pharaoh, as each plague becomes a direct clash between Israel’s God and Egypt’s demon-like gods.
When Watchers Ruled the Nations
by Brian Godawa
2020
Companion to When Giants Were Upon the Earth, this book surveys how Scripture portrays the divine council, territorial spirits, and pagan gods from Canaan, Egypt, China, and beyond, framing the unseen powers later explored in Chronicles of the Watchers and related novels.
The Spiritual World of Jezebel and Elijah
by Brian Godawa
2019
This nonfiction companion explores the unseen world behind Elijah’s conflict with Ahab and Jezebel, tracing Canaanite gods, cosmic geography, and ancient practices to explain the spiritual backdrop for Jezebel’s story and the Chronicles of the Watchers novels.
Qin: Dragon Emperor of China
by Brian Godawa
2019
Greek warrior Antiochus journeys east to capture a legendary dragon and save his father’s crumbling throne. In Qin-era China he encounters a brilliant but unstable emperor, a forbidden love, and spiritual powers behind dragons and empires that echo the Bible’s Tower of Babel.
Resistant
by Brian Godawa
2018
Set in A.D. 67, Resistant follows doctor Alexander and his wife Cassandra back into war-torn Judea, where Roman legions, Jewish zealots, and the mysterious Two Witnesses collide. As Revelation’s imagery seems to spill into history, they fight to protect the vulnerable without losing their faith.
Judgment
by Brian Godawa
2018
In A.D. 70, Roman armies tighten their siege around Jerusalem while famine and civil war ravage the city. Alexander stays to heal the wounded as Cassandra attempts a dangerous journey from Pella, and the last book of the series turns Revelation’s climax into one family’s final test.
Tyrant
by Brian Godawa
2017
In A.D. 64, Jewish physician Alexander serves Rome just as Nero blames Christians for the Great Fire. Ordered to help hunt down the author of a secret apocalypse scroll, he and the bold servant Cassandra are dragged into a deadly struggle of empire, prophecy, and spiritual warfare.
Remnant
by Brian Godawa
2017
Roman officer Severus is commanded to kill the exiled apostle John on Patmos, but John’s visions turn his mission upside down. As revolt erupts in Jerusalem, Alexander and Cassandra race to warn believers before war, demons, and imperial politics tear the city apart.
The Dragon King / Jezebel: Harlot Queen of Israel
by Brian Godawa
2016
This volume pairs two Chronicles of the Watchers tales: one reimagines China’s first emperor through a clash of dragons, empires, and unseen powers; the other follows Queen Jezebel’s campaign to enthrone Baal in Israel against Elijah and Yahweh’s heavenly host.
Jesus Triumphant
by Brian Godawa
2015
Told largely through the eyes of the two thieves on the cross, this novel traces Jesus’ ministry from desert temptation to descent into Hades. It reveals the hidden spiritual war he wages against the powers behind Rome, demons, and the nations he came to reclaim.
When Giants Were Upon the Earth
by Brian Godawa
2014
This nonfiction volume gathers the research behind Chronicles of the Nephilim, tracing the Bible’s references to the Watchers, Nephilim, giants, Leviathan, and the cosmic war of the seed, and showing how ancient texts and traditions inform those supernatural themes.
David Ascendant
by Brian Godawa
2014
Young David rises from overlooked shepherd to fugitive and warrior while six giant assassins, the Sons of Rapha, hunt him. Between Saul’s jealousy, Philistine intrigue, and his own desires, David must trust God to survive and take the throne of Israel.
Joshua Valiant
by Brian Godawa
2013
Israel finally approaches Canaan after centuries of slavery, only to find the land infested with giant clans. Joshua and Caleb lead God’s people against King Og of Bashan and occult armies, learning that conquering giants demands both courage and unwavering faith.
Caleb Vigilant
by Brian Godawa
2013
As Israel turns toward Jericho, Caleb’s story centers on Rahab, a Canaanite prostitute drawn to Israel’s God and to an Israelite warrior. While Anakim assassins hunt her, Caleb must safeguard Israel’s advance and the fragile family line that will one day carry the Messiah.
Abraham Allegiant
by Brian Godawa
2013
After the Flood, tyrant-king Nimrod builds Babel to unite the world under rebel gods, only for God to scatter his empire. Into this broken landscape steps Abram, called to follow a risky new promise while Nimrod seeks to destroy him and his line.
Gilgamesh Immortal
by Brian Godawa
2012
Gilgamesh, the mighty giant king of Uruk, oppresses his people until the wild man Enkidu challenges him and becomes his closest friend. Driven by fear of death, Gilgamesh quests for immortality, crossing strange realms to confront Noah and the true God’s purposes.
Enoch Primordial
by Brian Godawa
2012
Before Noah’s time, the world groans under the rule of Watcher angels and their Nephilim offspring. Enoch, who walks with God yet loves his family fiercely, is called to become a giant-killer and prophet, confronting monstrous powers bent on pushing their way back to Eden.
Noah Primeval
by Brian Godawa
2011
In a world ruled by fallen angels posing as gods and populated by Nephilim giants, Noah is a tribal leader prophesied to halt their corruption. When his family is targeted, he must battle both physical enemies and spiritual powers while obeying God’s command to build the ark.
Where should I start?
If you want the big biblical fantasy saga: Noah Primeval → Enoch Primordial → Gilgamesh Immortal → Abraham Allegiant.
If you prefer Old Testament battles and giants: Joshua Valiant → Caleb Vigilant → David Ascendant → Jesus Triumphant.
If end-times and Revelation intrigue you: Tyrant → Remnant → Resistant → Judgment.
If you like research alongside story: When Giants Were Upon the Earth → When Watchers Ruled the Nations → The Spiritual World of Jezebel and Elijah.
Author bio
Brian Godawa was born in Arlington Heights, Illinois, in 1961 and grew up loving stories, art, and movies. Long before he ever sold a script, he was sketching images and imagining worlds that mixed faith, conflict, and the unseen.
He studied illustration at Northern Illinois University, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors. That training in visual storytelling shaped the way he thinks about scenes, framing, and symbolism, even now that most of his work happens on the page instead of a canvas.
In college he also wrote, directed, and performed street drama. Watching audiences respond, he realised the writer’s ideas drove the whole experience, and that realisation slowly nudged him away from acting toward the quieter, more demanding work of writing itself.
Godawa first became known as a screenwriter. His World War II drama To End All Wars won multiple festival awards and recognition from veterans’ groups, and led to other projects adapting or co-writing films like The Visitation, Change Your Life! and My Son Hunter.
Along the way he wrote and directed documentaries on church–state separation, stem-cell debates, and academic freedom, and he began travelling to colleges, churches, and conferences to talk about storytelling, culture, and belief. He also built a steady following as a blogger wrestling with movies, philosophy, and Christian faith.
His early nonfiction grew directly out of that mix of film and theology. In Hollywood Worldviews he helps readers watch movies with their eyes open, tracing how stories smuggle in ideas about meaning, morality, and God. In Word Pictures (later retitled The Imagination of God), he explores how Scripture itself uses image and narrative to reach not just the mind but the imagination.
After years in the film world, Godawa turned more of his energy toward novels. A difficult stretch in screenwriting pushed him to try fiction as a way to tell the stories he cared about without waiting for studio approval, and he found he liked the creative control that came with the page.
That decision led to his flagship saga, Chronicles of the Nephilim, an eight-book biblical fantasy that reimagines figures like Noah, Enoch, Abraham, Joshua, David, and Jesus within a cosmic war between rebellious angelic Watchers, their giant offspring, and the promised seed who will crush evil. Spin-off series such as Chronicles of the Apocalypse and Chronicles of the Watchers carry the same ideas into the first-century world of Revelation and into the wider history of empires like Egypt, China, and the Greek Seleucids.
Alongside the fiction he writes companion studies like When Giants Were Upon the Earth, When Watchers Ruled the Nations, and shorter "spiritual world" books that unpack the biblical and ancient Near Eastern research behind his stories. For readers who enjoy the novels, these volumes explain where the imaginative choices end and the historical or theological arguments begin.
Godawa now lives near Los Angeles with his wife, Kimberly, still juggling screenplays, novels, essays, and speaking. He tends to move easily between pop culture and Scripture, arguing that Christians need both a grounded theology and a lively imagination, and his work is aimed at readers who want that same mix.
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