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Jonathan Wolf is the author of The Hidden Scroll, a historical thriller set in 622 BCE Jerusalem, when a young Temple scribe begins to uncover evidence that the "lost" Book of the Law driving King Josiah's holy purge may not be the ancient text the court claims it to be. The novel grew out of years of obsessive research into the Documentary Hypothesis, the court politics of Josiah's reign, and the question of who actually wrote the Hebrew Bible. Wolf writes at the intersection of ancient history, political intrigue, and the long reach of sacred texts. The Hidden Scroll is currently in submission to publishers.

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Jonathan Wolf is the author of The Hidden Scroll, a historical thriller set in 622 BCE Jerusalem. The novel centers on Eliab ben Uri, a young scribe in Josiah's Temple who begins to suspect that the scroll recently "discovered" by High Priest Hilkiah — the text now being used to justify a bloody purge of the kingdom's religious sites — has origins more dangerous, and more recent, than anyone in power is willing to admit.

The novel draws on years of research into the Documentary Hypothesis, Josiah's reform, and the archaeological record of Iron Age Judah. Wolf's primary sources include the work of Richard Elliott Friedman, Israel Finkelstein, Joel Baden, and the broader tradition of biblical source criticism. His fiction is shaped by the conviction that the most interesting question in ancient history is not what happened, but who needed it to have happened.

The Hidden Scroll is Wolf's debut novel and is currently in submission to publishers. He writes about the research behind the book at The Hidden Scroll on Substack.