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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.

101–200

The Second Century

2 works

c. 144; reconstructed from quotations

Greek

The Evangelion and the Apostolikon

Marcion of Sinope · c. 85 – c. 160

One gospel and ten letters of Paul, with the Old Testament discarded entirely and everything Marcion judged to be Judaizing interpolation cut away. There is no nativity; the Lord simply appears at Capernaum in the fifteenth year of Tiberius.

Marcionite · Scripture collectionLukeGalatiansRomans1 CorinthiansRead elsewhere

c. 180–190; survives in fragments

Greek

Against Marcion

Rhodon

A pupil of Tatian reports on the state of Marcion's school a generation after its founder: split into factions that cannot agree whether there are two first principles or three, and led by an old man named Apelles who, pressed on how he knew, admitted he did not know and simply believed.

Early Church · PolemicGalatians1 TimothyLukeRead elsewhere