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By Scott McGill

Juvencus’ Evangeliorum libri IV, or "The 4 Books of the Gospels," is a verse rendering of the gospel narrative written ca. 330 CE. including round 3200 hexameter strains, it's the first of the Latin "Biblical epics" to seem in antiquity, and the 1st classicizing, hexameter poem on a Christian subject to seem within the western culture. As such, it's a major textual content in literary and cultural background.


This is the 1st English translation of the full poem. the inability of an entire English translation has stored many students and scholars, really these open air of Classics, and lots of knowledgeable common readers from researching it. With a radical creation to assist within the interpretation and appreciation of the textual content this transparent and available English translation will allow a clearer realizing of the significance of Juvencus’ paintings to later Latin poetry and to the early Church.

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