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.
1–100
1 work
c. 50 BC – AD 100
Greek
Anonymous
Job on his deathbed retells his own story: he brought the disaster on himself by destroying an idol's temple, endured it as an athlete endures a bout, and leaves his three daughters not property but cords that let them speak in the tongues of angels.
101–200
1 work
c. 200
Latin
De Patientia
Tertullian · c. 155–c. 220
A treatise on a virtue the author cheerfully admits he does not possess, tracing impatience back to the devil and patience to the passion of Christ.
201–300
1 work
256
Latin
De Bono Patientiae
Cyprian of Carthage · c. 210–258
Written while the rebaptism quarrel was at its most bitter, commending patience as the virtue that holds a divided church together, and taking Tertullian's treatise as its starting point.
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