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.
201–300
1 work
c. 3rd–4th century
Latin
Attributed to Paul
Twenty short verses supplying the letter Colossians 4:16 says Paul sent to Laodicea and which nobody had. It is assembled almost entirely out of phrases from Philippians and says nothing that Paul had not already written elsewhere — which may be why it survived so long unchallenged.
301–400
1 work
c. 391–393
Latin
Quaestiones Hebraicae in Genesim
Jerome · c. 347 – 420
Not a commentary but a list of places where the Greek and Latin Bibles have gone wrong and the Hebrew says something else, with the rabbinic explanations Jerome had picked up from his Jewish teachers at Bethlehem — including that the ark's window was a precious stone, and what Adam's rib actually says.
701–800
1 work
c. 796–801
Latin
Alcuin of York and the scriptorium of Tours · c. 735 – 804
A corrected Vulgate produced at Tours at Charlemagne's request, standardising a text that had drifted through four centuries of copying, and written in the new Caroline minuscule with word spacing and punctuation.
1401–1500
1 work
c. 1444–1457
Latin
Lorenzo Valla · c. 1407–1457
Notes comparing the Vulgate against Greek manuscripts and finding the Latin wanting in dozens of places, including words on which doctrines had been built.
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