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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1780 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.

2000–1901 BC

The Twentieth Century BC

1 work

c. 2100–1800 BC

Sumerian

The Sumerian King List

Anonymous

A list of kings and their reigns, beginning when kingship came down from heaven and giving the earliest of them reigns of twenty-eight thousand years and more — then, after a line recording that the flood swept over, dropping to lengths a human being could manage.

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