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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.

1301–1400

The Fourteenth Century

1 work

1322–1332

Latin

The Literal Postill on the Whole Bible

Postilla Litteralis

Nicholas of Lyra · c. 1270–1349

A commentary on the entire Bible insisting on the literal sense first, and drawing throughout on Rashi and other Jewish exegetes whose Hebrew he could read.

Franciscan · CommentaryRead elsewhere