The Library

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 of 1780 works

1400–1301 BC

The Fourteenth Century BC

1 work

c. 1400 BC

Ugaritic

The Baal Cycle

Ilimilku the scribe

Baal the rider on the clouds defeats Yam the sea and Lotan the twisting serpent, wins a palace with a window in it, and is then swallowed by Mot, death itself — until Anat splits Mot with a blade, winnows him, and Baal returns and the heavens rain oil.