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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.

401–500

The Fifth Century

1 work

c. 500; edited into the following centuries

Hebrew and Aramaic

The Babylonian Talmud

Talmud Bavli

The academies of Sura and Pumbedita

The Mishnah with centuries of Babylonian debate wrapped around it, digressing without warning from a rule about a lost ox into medicine, dream interpretation, biography, or a story about God losing an argument to a majority of rabbis.

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