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.
200–101 BC
2 works
c. 124 BC
Greek
Abridged from Jason of Cyrene
A rhetorical history of the same revolt as First Maccabees, told for effect rather than for the record. Heliodorus is flogged by an apparition in the treasury; Eleazar refuses to pretend to eat pork; a mother watches seven sons die and tells the last that God made the world out of things that did not exist.
c. 110–100 BC
Hebrew
Anonymous
Forty years of revolt told soberly and in order: the desolating sacrilege in the temple, the old priest Mattathias killing a man at the altar, Judas and his brothers, the rededication that became Hanukkah, and the treaty with Rome that would outlast them all.
1101–1200
1 work
c. 1115
Latin
De Vita Sua
Guibert of Nogent · c. 1055–c. 1124
An abbot's account of his mother, his own sexual temptations and bad dreams, a murdered bishop, and a communal revolt at Laon, written in imitation of Augustine.
3 of 1780 works