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.
1–100
2 works
c. AD 20–40
Greek
De Confusione Linguarum
Philo of Alexandria · c. 20 BC – c. AD 50
Babel taken as the scattering of a mind that had agreed with itself in wickedness, with a long digression on the divine Word as God's eldest son, his image, and the one who stands between creation and the uncreated.
c. AD 20–40
Greek
Quis Rerum Divinarum Heres Sit
Philo of Alexandria · c. 20 BC – c. AD 50
On Abraham's question at the covenant of the pieces, expanding into an account of prophetic ecstasy — the mind setting when the divine light rises — and of the Word as the divider who cuts all things into their opposites.
101–200
1 work
c. 150–200
Greek, surviving in Coptic
Trimorphic Protennoia
Anonymous
A feminine divine voice speaks in three descents — as Voice, as Speech, as Word — putting on the likeness of each order of being in turn until she takes the form of a man and is not recognised.
601–700
1 work
c. 628–634
Greek
Maximus the Confessor · c. 580–662
Solutions to difficult passages in Gregory of Nazianzus and Pseudo-Dionysius, which become an entire cosmology of the logoi — the divine intentions by which each created thing is what it is.
801–900
1 work
c. 865–870
Latin
Vox Spiritualis Aquilae
John Scotus Eriugena · c. 815 – c. 877
The voice of the spiritual eagle sounds in the ears of the church. Eriugena reads the prologue as the whole of theology in fourteen verses, with creation as God's self-utterance and the incarnation as the same Word said again in flesh.
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