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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.

801–900

The Ninth Century

1 work

c. 850–886

Greek

The Canons and Hymns

Joseph the Hymnographer · c. 816 – 886

A Sicilian who was captured by pirates on the way to Rome, spent years enslaved on Crete, and on returning wrote hymns for very nearly every day of the Byzantine year — several hundred canons, more than any other author.

Byzantine · HymnsPsalmsLukeRevelationIsaiah