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 1–100
Greek
Apocalypse of Moses
Anonymous
What Adam and Eve did after the garden: the penance standing in the Jordan and the Tigris, Satan's account of why he refused to worship a creature made of clay, and Eve's deathbed confession to her children of how it all happened.
501–600
1 work
c. 500–510
Latin
De Spiritalis Historiae Gestis
Avitus of Vienne · c. 470–c. 519
Five books of hexameters on creation, the fall, the sentence, the flood, and the crossing of the Red Sea, with a serpent given real rhetorical craft.
1601–1700
1 work
1667; twelve-book edition 1674
English
John Milton · 1608–1674
The revolt of the angels, the creation, and the fall, written to justify the ways of God to men — and giving Satan the best speeches in the process.
3 of 1774 works