Skip to content

The Library

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.

301–400

The Fourth Century

1 work

c. 350–373

Syriac

Hymns on Paradise

Ephrem the Syrian · c. 306–373

Fifteen hymns imagining paradise as a mountain of ascending terraces, reading Genesis through image and paradox rather than argument.

Syriac · HymnsGenesisRead elsewhere