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.
1–100
1 work
c. AD 30–45
Greek
De Decalogo
Philo of Alexandria · c. 20 BC – c. AD 50
Why the ten were spoken by God directly and the rest through Moses, why they divide into two tables of five, and why a voice rather than a body was the fitting form for God to take at Sinai.
801–900
1 work
c. 885–899
Old English
Domboc
Alfred the Great · 849 – 899
A West Saxon law code prefaced by the Ten Commandments, chapters of Exodus, and the apostolic decree of Acts 15 in English, after which Alfred explains that Christ came not to break the law but to fulfil it, and that the golden rule is the one judgement a man needs.
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