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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

901–1000

The Tenth Century

1 work

c. 920–930

Judeo-Arabic

The Tafsir

Saadia Gaon · 882 – 942

The Torah and much of the rest of the Hebrew Bible translated into Arabic, deliberately smoothing anthropomorphism — where the Hebrew has God's hand, the Arabic has his power — and adding a running commentary against Karaite and Muslim readings.

Rabbinic Jewish · TranslationGenesisExodusIsaiahJob