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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. AD 1–100; date heavily disputed

Greek, surviving in Slavonic

Second Enoch

The Book of the Secrets of Enoch

Anonymous

Enoch is carried through ten heavens, sees the prison of the fallen watchers and the place prepared for the righteous, is anointed and clothed as one of the glorious ones, and returns for thirty days to dictate three hundred and sixty-six books.

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101–200

The Second Century

1 work

c. 100–200

Greek

Third Baruch

The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch

Anonymous

Baruch weeps over the ruins and is taken through five heavens, where he sees the builders of the tower punished, the phoenix that shields the earth from the sun's heat, and angels bringing baskets of flowers that turn out to be human virtues.

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