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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.

1–100

The First Century

1 work

c. AD 30–45

Greek

On the Contemplative Life

De Vita Contemplativa

Philo of Alexandria · c. 20 BC – c. AD 50

An account of the Therapeutae, a community of men and women outside Alexandria who lived in separate cells, ate once a day after sunset, studied allegory, and kept an all-night vigil of antiphonal singing every fiftieth day.

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