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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.

200–101 BC

The Second Century BC

1 work

c. 2nd century BC; survives in fragments

Greek

The Exodus

Exagoge

Ezekiel the Tragedian

A Greek tragedy in iambic trimeter on the exodus, with Moses speaking the prologue. In one fragment he describes a dream in which a great figure on a throne at Sinai hands him a sceptre and a crown and steps down, and the stars bow to him.

Hellenistic Jewish · DramaExodusDanielRevelationRead elsewhere