The Library
1577 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.
100–1 BC
1 work
c. 30 BC – AD 30
Hebrew, surviving in Latin
The Assumption of Moses
Anonymous
Moses hands the books to Joshua and foretells the whole of Israel's history to the writer's own day, culminating in a Levite named Taxo who takes his seven sons into a cave to die rather than transgress — and God's kingdom appearing throughout his creation.
1–100
1 work
Jewish core, Christian recension c. AD 100–200
Greek
Anonymous
Each of Jacob's sons gathers his children and confesses the sin that defined him — Reuben lust, Simeon envy, Judah greed and drink — then warns against it and foretells what will come. Passages about a saviour from Levi and Judah sit in the text as it stands.
1201–1300
1 work
1226
Latin
Francis of Assisi · 1181/82–1226
Dictated weeks before his death: how the Lord led him among lepers, his reverence for priests however unworthy, and a command that the rule not be glossed or explained away.
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