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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.

201–300

The Third Century

1 work

c. 250

Latin

On Jewish Foods

De Cibis Iudaicis

Novatian · c. 200 – c. 258

Written from hiding during the persecution to a congregation asking about the food laws. The unclean animals were never about animals, Novatian argues — they name human vices, and what the law forbade was the swine's filthiness and the vulture's appetite for another's death.

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