0561-539 BCE

Kings

Hebrew

Palestine

0400-300 BCE

Chronicles

Hebrew

Palestine

0400 BCE

Song of Songs

Hebrew

Egypt?

0400 BCE

Isaiah 60: 6

Hebrew

Israel?

080-100 CE

Matthew 12:42

Greek

080-100

Luke 11: 29-32

Greek

093

Antiquities of the Jews

Josephus

Greek

Egypt

0100

2 Baruch [Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch]

Hebrew to Greek to Syriac

Israel?

0200

Testament of Solomon

Greek

Egypt

0185-0254

Homilies on the Song of Songs

Origen

Greek

Egypt

0300s

Gregory of Nyssa

Turkey

0300s

Acts of St. Nina

Georgian

Egypt

0640s

Pseudo-Methodius

Syriac

Syria

0640s

Qur’an

Arabic

Arabia

700s

Targum Sheni of the Book of Esther

Aramaic

Palestine

0800s

Sybylla Hebraea

?

?

0800s-900s

Midrash Mishle

Hebrew

Israel

0800s-900s

Alphabet of Pseudo Ben Sira

Aramaic/ Hebrew

Palestine

0900s-1000s

[fragment]

Coptic

Egypt

1180s

Rationale Divinorum Officiorum

Johannes Belethus

Latin

Paris

1200s

Complicao singularis exemplorum

French

1200s

Legenda Aurora

Jacopo da Varazze

French

1225

Kəbrä Nägäst

From Coptic into Arabic

Aksum

1322

Kəbrä Nägäst

Yeshaq, Yamharana-‘Ab, Hezba-Krestos, Andrew, Philip, and Mahari-‘Ab”

Ge’ez

Aksum