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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.

301–400

The Fourth Century

1 work

c. 340–380 and later

Syriac

The Acts of the Persian Martyrs

Anonymous

Accounts of the great persecution under Shapur II, in which Christians were taxed at double rate as suspected partisans of Rome and their clergy killed when they refused to collect it. Simeon bar Sabbae is executed with a hundred of his clergy on the eve of Good Friday.

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