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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.

1200–1101 BC

The Twelfth Century BC

1 work

c. 1200 BC

Egyptian

The Instruction of Amenemope

Amenemope son of Kanakht

Thirty chapters of counsel for an official: do not move the boundary stone, do not lean on the scales or falsify the weights, do not befriend the hot-tempered man, and do not strain to seek excess — for wealth makes itself wings like geese and flies away.

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