1st-century books

book of the New Testament

1st century Greco-Roman periplus

apocalyptic book, preserved in Latin as an appendix to the Vulgate; tripartite work consisting of 5 Ezra (a Christian work), 4 Ezra (a Jewish apocalypse), and 6 Ezra (predicts wars and rebukes sinners; perhaps Christian)

work by Pseudo-Apollodorus, a compendium of Greek myths

ancient Greek version of the biblical Book of Ezra as preserved in the Septuagint

Chinese mathematics book, composed by several generations of scholars from the 10th century BCE

thumb|200px|Title page of the 1620 edition of Isaac Casaubon's Geographica, whose 840 page numbers prefixed by "C" are now used as a standard text reference. The Geographica (, Geōgraphiká; or , "Strabo's 17 Books on Geographical Topics") or Geography, is an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, consisting of 17 'books', written in Greek in the late first century BC, or early first century AD, and attributed to Strabo, an educated citizen of the Roman Empire of Greek descent. There is a fragmentary palimpsest dating to the fifth century. The earliest manuscripts of books 1–9 date to the tent

Hellenistic Jewish philosophical discourse composed in Koine Greek about the supremacy of pious reason over passion

group of Jewish apocryphal writings about the lives of Adam and Eve from the expulsion from the Garden of Eden to their deaths

pseudepigraphic apocalypse describing the ascent of Enoch, through ten heavens, extant in Church Slavonic and in Coptic fragments

Jewish pseudepigraphical work; purports to be secret prophecies Moses revealed to Joshua; known from a single 6th-century Latin manuscript from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan; possibly alluded to in Jude 1:9

book; one of the Pseudepigrapha

Old Testament pseudepigraphical work ascribed to King Solomon

ancient Jewish manuscript dating to 70-150 AD

a text of Jewish apocalyptic literature

literary work

1st century Chinese dictionary of regional terms

The Lunheng, also known by numerous English translations, is a wide-ranging Chinese classic text by Wang Chong (27 – ). First published in 80, it contains critical essays on natural science and Chinese mythology, philosophy, and literature.

one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls

The Taixuanjing is a divination guide composed by the Confucian writer Yang Xiong (53 BCE18 CE) in the decade prior to the fall of the Western Han dynasty. The first draft of this work was completed in 2 BCE; during the Jin dynasty, an otherwise unknown person named Fan Wang () salvaged the text and wrote a commentary on it, from which our text survives today.

book by Yang Xiong

Jewish text written between 50BCE−70CE asserting bodily resurrection

ancient account of the lives of the prophets from the Tanakh, surviving in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, and Arabic manuscripts

Vaishnavite text

Religious text

Old Testament apocrypha