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.
200–101 BC
1 work
c. 160–150 BC
Hebrew, surviving complete in Ge'ez
Anonymous
Genesis and half of Exodus dictated to Moses by an angel and dated throughout by jubilees of forty-nine years, on a solar calendar of exactly 364 days. The patriarchs keep feasts that have not been given yet, Abraham refuses to celebrate his father's idols, and the watchers' fall is retold with the demons petitioning to keep a tenth of their number.
100–1 BC
1 work
c. 100 BC
Aramaic
1QapGen
Anonymous
Genesis retold in the first person by Lamech, Noah, and Abraham. Lamech suspects his wife of conceiving by a watcher and she swears she did not; Abraham dreams of a cedar and a palm; and the courtiers of Pharaoh describe Sarah's beauty from the hair of her head to her hands.
1–100
1 work
c. 70
Hebrew, surviving in Latin
Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum
Pseudo-Philo
A retelling of the Bible from Adam to the death of Saul that fills every silence — naming Cain's wife, giving Jephthah's daughter a lament and a name, inventing whole speeches for judges the book of Judges dismisses in a line.
3 of 1774 works