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.
101–200
1 work
c. 150–200; preserved in Hippolytus
Greek
Anonymous
A commentary on a hymn to Attis, read so that the mysteries of the Phrygians, the Egyptians, the Assyrians, and the Greeks all turn out to be saying what the gospel says, with the primal Man at the centre of every one of them.
201–300
1 work
c. 242; survives in fragments
Middle Persian
Mani · 216–274 or 277
Mani's own summary of his religion, written in Persian and presented to the emperor Shapur I. It opens with the claim that wisdom has come down through Buddha, Zoroaster, and Jesus in turn, and has now come complete through the seal of the prophets.
1401–1500
1 work
1486
Latin
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola · 1463–1494
Propositions drawn from Latin, Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew sources, including the Kabbalah, offered for public disputation in Rome at the author's own expense.
3 of 1780 works