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.
101–200
3 works
c. 100–150; date disputed
Greek
Anonymous
A hundred and fourteen sayings of Jesus with no narrative, no passion, and no resurrection, some close to the canonical gospels and others enigmatic in a way that invites an inner, secret reading.
c. 140–180
Greek
Valentinus · c. 100–c. 160
Not a narrative but a meditation on forgetting and being found: error grows in ignorance of the Father until the Word appears and the names of the elect are read out of the living book.
c. 150–180
Greek
Apocryphon Johannis
Anonymous
A full Sethian cosmology: an unknowable Father, a fall within the divine fullness, and a blind creator god who makes the material world and traps light in human bodies.
201–300
1 work
c. 250–300
Greek
Anonymous
A loose collection of sayings and reflections on the sacraments — baptism, chrism, eucharist, redemption, and the bridal chamber — rather than a narrative gospel.
4 of 1774 works