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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.

100–1 BC

The First Century BC

1 work

c. 50 BC – AD 50

Greek

The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides

Pseudo-Phocylides

Two hundred and thirty lines of hexameter moral advice under the name of an archaic Greek poet, and Jewish throughout without ever mentioning Israel, the temple, the sabbath, or circumcision — only the commandments that a Greek could also recognise as reasonable.

Hellenistic Jewish · MaximsExodusLeviticusColossians1 PeterRead elsewhere