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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.

801–900

The Ninth Century

1 work

c. 825–840

Old Saxon

The Heliand

Anonymous

The gospel retold in alliterative Germanic verse for recently conquered Saxons: Christ as a liege-lord, the disciples as his warrior band, the nativity in a hall.

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1601–1700

The Seventeenth Century

1 work

c. 1642

Wendat

The Huron Carol

Jesous Ahatonhia

Jean de Brébeuf · 1593–1649

A nativity carol in the Wendat language, with the child wrapped in rabbit skin, visited by hunters, and honoured with gifts of fox and beaver pelt.

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