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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.

101–200

The Second Century

1 work

c. 100–150

Greek, surviving in Coptic

The Secret Book of James

Apocryphon of James

Anonymous

Five hundred and fifty days after the resurrection the risen Lord returns while the twelve are sitting writing down what they remember, and takes James and Peter aside. Be full, be lacking; seek death as the dead seek life. Then he departs and the two try to follow him up and are called back.

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