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. 50 BC – AD 100
Greek
Anonymous
Job on his deathbed retells his own story: he brought the disaster on himself by destroying an idol's temple, endured it as an athlete endures a bout, and leaves his three daughters not property but cords that let them speak in the tongues of angels.
101–200
1 work
c. 108
Greek
Epictetus, recorded by Arrian · c. 50 – c. 135
A freed slave teaching Stoicism in Nicopolis, taken down by a student. Some things are up to us and some are not; the rest follows. In one passage he asks why, if madness and habit can make the Galilaeans fearless of tyrants, reason cannot do the same.
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