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.
700–601 BC
1 work
691 BC
Akkadian
The Taylor Prism
The court of Sennacherib
A six-sided clay prism recording the king's campaigns, including the third: forty-six walled cities of Judah taken, two hundred thousand people counted as spoil, and Hezekiah himself shut up in Jerusalem like a bird in a cage.
200–101 BC
1 work
c. 150–100 BC
Hebrew
Anonymous
A widow rebukes the elders of her town for setting God a deadline, then dresses to be looked at, walks into the Assyrian camp, flatters the general for four days, and cuts off his head with his own sword while he lies drunk.
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