The Library
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.
1–100
4 works
c. AD 20–40
Greek
De Migratione Abrahami
Philo of Alexandria · c. 20 BC – c. AD 50
Get thee out of thy country read as the soul's departure from the body, from sense, and from speech, in that order, toward a homeland it has never seen.
c. AD 30–45
Greek
De Abrahamo
Philo of Alexandria · c. 20 BC – c. AD 50
Abraham presented to a Greek readership as a living law — a man who kept the Torah before it was given, because he had read it off the order of the world.
c. 70–150
Hebrew, surviving in Slavonic
Anonymous
Abraham smashes his father's idols, then is taken up by the angel Yahoel to see the throne, the fall, and the burning of the temple — with Azazel presiding over the nations and a strange figure worshipped by both Jews and Gentiles.
c. 100
Greek
Anonymous
Michael is sent to tell Abraham he is dying and cannot bring himself to say it. Abraham stalls, asks for a tour of the world first, starts calling down fire on sinners, and has to be stopped — and at the judgement scene Abel weighs each soul on scales.
4 of 1780 works