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.

1 of 1780 works

1400–1301 BC

The Fourteenth Century BC

1 work

c. 1400 BC

Ugaritic

The Legend of King Keret

Ilimilku the scribe

A king who has lost his whole household weeps until El appears in a dream and tells him to march on a distant city and demand its princess. He does, and is granted sons — then falls mortally ill, and his son asks how a son of El can possibly die.