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.
700–601 BC
2 works
c. 700 BC
Hebrew
The tunnellers of Hezekiah
Cut into the rock where two teams digging from opposite ends met beneath Jerusalem. It records the moment the last three cubits were breached and each team heard the other's voices calling through the stone, and the water ran to the pool.
691 BC
Akkadian
The Taylor Prism
The court of Sennacherib
A six-sided clay prism recording the king's campaigns, including the third: forty-six walled cities of Judah taken, two hundred thousand people counted as spoil, and Hezekiah himself shut up in Jerusalem like a bird in a cage.
2 of 1780 works