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.
901–1000
1 work
c. 1000; poems earlier
Old English
Anonymous
Four biblical poems in alliterative verse: Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan. The interpolated Genesis B gives Satan a long speech of defiance from hell, and makes the tempter a subordinate demon in disguise who deceives Eve with an apparent vision of heaven.
1601–1700
1 work
c. 1655–1660; published 1825
Latin
De Doctrina Christiana
John Milton · 1608–1674
A private systematic theology arguing from scripture alone, and arriving at a subordinationist view of the Son, mortalism of the soul, and the lawfulness of polygamy.
2 of 1774 works