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.
900–801 BC
1 work
c. 840 BC
Aramaic
An Aramean king, probably Hazael
Three broken fragments of a basalt victory monument found reused in a wall at Tel Dan in 1993 and 1994. The surviving lines claim the killing of a king of Israel and a king of the house of David.
200–101 BC
1 work
c. 2nd century BC
Hebrew
Anonymous
David in the first person: the smallest of his brothers, a shepherd who made a harp with his own hands, passed over by the prophet until God chose him — and then the meeting with the Philistine, whom he cut down with the man's own sword.
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