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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.

1600–1501 BC

The Sixteenth Century BC

1 work

c. 1550 BC; older material, copied for centuries after

Egyptian

The Book of the Dead

The Book of Coming Forth by Day

Anonymous

Spells written on papyrus and buried with the dead to get them safely through. At the centre is the weighing: the heart set against the feather of truth while the deceased denies forty-two sins one by one — I have not stolen, I have not caused pain, I have not held back water in its season.

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