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.
101–200
1 work
c. 120–160; survives in fragments
Greek
Anonymous
Known from seven passages in Epiphanius. It begins not with a birth but with John the Baptist, whose locusts have become honey-cakes, and has Jesus say he came to abolish sacrifice — and that if you do not stop sacrificing, wrath will not stop for you.
201–300
1 work
c. 239–242; survives in Latin
Greek, surviving in Latin
Origen of Alexandria · c. 185 – c. 253
Sixteen sermons on the sacrificial code, opening with the flat claim that read literally these chapters are useless, and then reading every offering, every fat portion and kidney, as a movement of the soul or an aspect of Christ.
1101–1200
1 work
c. 1175–1180
Latin
Baldwin of Forde · c. 1125–1190
A meditative rather than argumentative treatment of the eucharist, reading it through the Old Testament sacrifices and the church's unity in one bread.
3 of 1774 works