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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.

901–1000

The Tenth Century

2 works

c. 942

Arabic

The Universal History

Kitab al-Unwan

Agapius of Hierapolis · 10th century

A history from creation to the tenth century preserving material from lost Syriac and Greek chronicles, including notices about the first century.

Melkite · Chronicle

c. 953

Hebrew

The Josippon

Anonymous, in southern Italy

Jewish history from Adam to the fall of Masada, built out of a Latin Josephus and other sources and written as though by Josephus himself. It reorders, adds, and quietly removes the passage about Jesus.

Rabbinic Jewish · HistoryDanielEzraGenesis2 Chronicles