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The Library

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.

501–600

The Sixth Century

1 work

c. 512–518; surviving in Syriac

Greek, surviving in Syriac

The Hymns

Severus of Antioch · c. 465 – 538

Around three hundred short hymns for the cathedral office at Antioch, arranged by the eight tones — for the feasts, for the martyrs of the city, for earthquakes, for the dead, and for rain.

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