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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.

1–100

The First Century

1 work

c. AD 20–40

Greek

On the Confusion of Tongues

De Confusione Linguarum

Philo of Alexandria · c. 20 BC – c. AD 50

Babel taken as the scattering of a mind that had agreed with itself in wickedness, with a long digression on the divine Word as God's eldest son, his image, and the one who stands between creation and the uncreated.

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