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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. 1350 BC

Egyptian

The Great Hymn to the Aten

Attributed to Akhenaten

Carved in a courtier's tomb at Amarna. When the sun sets the land is in darkness as though dead, lions come out and every snake bites; when it rises the Two Lands are in festival, people wash and dress and lift their arms, the cattle browse, the birds fly up with wings adoring.

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