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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.

1–100

The First Century

1 work

c. 97

Greek

Against Apion

Contra Apionem

Flavius Josephus · c. 37 – c. 100

A defence of Jewish antiquity against Greek writers who said the nation was recent and its books unreliable, answering the slanders about the temple one by one and setting out which books the Jews count as sacred and why.

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