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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.

1400–1301 BC

The Fourteenth Century BC

1 work

c. 1360–1330 BC

Akkadian

The Amarna Letters

The kings and governors of the Late Bronze Age

Three hundred and eighty-two clay tablets from the Egyptian foreign office: the great kings of Babylon and Mitanni haggling over gold and marriages, and the petty rulers of Canaan begging for archers against raiders and rivals. The mayor of Jerusalem writes six times and gets nothing.

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