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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.

1400–1301 BC

The Fourteenth Century BC

1 work

c. 1400 BC

Ugaritic

The Tale of Aqhat

Ilimilku the scribe

Danel, a righteous man who judges the case of the widow and the orphan at the gate, is granted a son. The goddess Anat covets the boy's bow, offers him immortality for it, is refused with the answer that death is the lot of all men, and has him killed. The land dries up for seven years.

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