The Library
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.
101–200
1 work
c. 100–130
Greek
Anonymous
An Egyptian Jewish oracle burning with rage at Rome for the temple, running through the emperors by the numerical value of their initials and promising that Nero will return from the East to destroy the city that destroyed Jerusalem.
201–300
1 work
c. 200–204
Greek
Hippolytus of Rome · c. 170–c. 235
A systematic reading of Daniel and Revelation to establish who the antichrist will be, where he will come from, and how the faithful are to recognise the last days without panicking.
401–500
1 work
c. 407
Latin
Jerome · c. 347 – 420
Written specifically to answer Porphyry, who had argued that Daniel was composed in the second century BC by someone describing events already past. Jerome reproduces the argument at length before rejecting it, and treats the fourth kingdom as Rome and the little horn as Antichrist.
901–1000
1 work
c. 950–954
Latin
De Ortu et Tempore Antichristi
Adso of Montier-en-Der · c. 910 – 992
Written for a queen who had asked. Adso assembles a complete biography of a man not yet born — tribe of Dan, born in Babylon, raised by sorcerers, reigning three and a half years from Jerusalem — and then says the end cannot come while the Frankish kings still stand.
1301–1400
1 work
c. 1388–1393
Latin
Matthias of Janov · c. 1350–1393
A vast work on the church, arguing for frequent lay communion, contrasting the apostolic church with the present one, and identifying antichrist with corruption inside it.
5 of 1774 works