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.
2000–1901 BC
1 work
c. 2100–1800 BC
Sumerian
Anonymous
A list of kings and their reigns, beginning when kingship came down from heaven and giving the earliest of them reigns of twenty-eight thousand years and more — then, after a line recording that the flood swept over, dropping to lengths a human being could manage.
201–300
1 work
c. 230; survives in fragments
Greek
Julius Africanus · c. 160 – c. 240
An attempt to reconcile the two genealogies of Jesus through levirate marriage: Joseph's father had two fathers, one by nature and one by law, so both lists are true. Africanus says the desposyni, the Lord's own surviving relatives, preserved the record.
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