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- The New Testament of the Christian bible supplements
the Old Testament, or Jewish bible, covered in "The
Invention of Writing and the Earliest Languages" (see
volume A, pages 52–103).
- Some of the differences between Christianity and Islam
may be seen by comparing the teachings of The Hebrew prophet
Jesus in The New Testament with the teachings of the Arabic
prophet Muhammad in the Koran, covered in "The Rise
of Islam and Islamic Literature" (see
volume B, pages 1426–1460).
- Augustine's Confessions are considered
the first authentic ancient autobiography to express the
Christian spirit. In the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau modeled his own Confessions, covered in
"Revolution and Romanticism in Europe and America"
(see volume E, pages 651–658),
after those of Augustine and inaugurated a modern form of
autobiography based on reason.
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