Juvencus' Four Books of the Gospels
Juvencus' Four Books of the Gospels

Author: Scott McGill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1317296613

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Juvencus’ Evangeliorum libri IV, or "The Four Books of the Gospels," is a verse rendering of the gospel narrative written ca. 330 CE. Consisting of around 3200 hexameter lines, it is the first of the Latin "Biblical epics" to appear in antiquity, and the first classicizing, hexameter poem on a Christian topic to appear in the western tradition. As such, it is an important text in literary and cultural history. This is the first English translation of the entire poem. The lack of a full English translation has kept many scholars and students, particularly those outside of Classics, and many educated general readers from discovering it. With a thorough introduction to aid in the interpretation and appreciation of the text this clear and accessible English translation will enable a clearer understanding of the importance of Juvencus’ work to later Latin poetry and to the early Church.

Juvencus' Four Books of the Gospels
Juvencus' Four Books of the Gospels

Author: Scott McGill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1317296621

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Juvencus’ Evangeliorum libri IV, or "The Four Books of the Gospels," is a verse rendering of the gospel narrative written ca. 330 CE. Consisting of around 3200 hexameter lines, it is the first of the Latin "Biblical epics" to appear in antiquity, and the first classicizing, hexameter poem on a Christian topic to appear in the western tradition. As such, it is an important text in literary and cultural history. This is the first English translation of the entire poem. The lack of a full English translation has kept many scholars and students, particularly those outside of Classics, and many educated general readers from discovering it. With a thorough introduction to aid in the interpretation and appreciation of the text this clear and accessible English translation will enable a clearer understanding of the importance of Juvencus’ work to later Latin poetry and to the early Church.

Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England
Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England

Author: Patrick McBrine

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2017-06-30

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1487514298

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Biblical poetry, written between the fourth and eleventh centuries, is an eclectic body of literature that disseminated popular knowledge of the Bible across Europe. Composed mainly in Latin and subsequently in Old English, biblical versification has much to tell us about the interpretations, genre preferences, reading habits, and pedagogical aims of medieval Christian readers. Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England provides an accessible introduction to biblical epic poetry. Patrick McBrine’s erudite analysis of the writings of Juvencus, Cyprianus, Arator, Bede, Alcuin, and more reveals the development of a hybridized genre of writing that informed and delighted its Christian audiences to such an extent it was copied and promoted for the better part of a millennium. The volume contains many first-time readings and discussions of poems and passages which have long lain dormant and offers new evidence for the reception of the Bible in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

The Gospel as Epic in Late Antiquity
The Gospel as Epic in Late Antiquity

Author: Carl P.E. Springer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9004312722

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Preliminary material -- PROLEGOMENA -- TEXT AND CONTEXT -- TRADITION AND DESIGN -- EPIC AND EVANGEL -- STRUCTURE AND MEANING -- SOUND AND SENSE -- POPULARITY AND INFLUENCE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF PASSAGES -- GENERAL INDEX.

The Four Gospels
The Four Gospels

Author: Catherine Upchurch

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780814636312

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Indispensable for all who long to know Jesus better, The Four Gospels provides a complete reference to the gospels; features an engaging layout, providing information where you need it; includes charts, maps, and photographs; is a source for personal meditation; is great for group Bible study too; is solidly Catholic in approach; comes from the producers of the long-standing Little Rock Scripture Study program.

The Last Trojan Hero
The Last Trojan Hero

Author: Philip Hardie

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-03-30

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0857735063

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“I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.” The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest classical text in the whole of Western literature. This sinuous and richly characterised epic vitally influenced the poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Milton. The doomed love of Dido and Aeneas inspired Purcell, while for T S Eliot Virgil's poem was 'the classic of all Europe'. The poet's stirring tale of a refugee Trojan prince, 'torn from Libyan waves' to found a new homeland in Italy, has provided much fertile material for writings on colonialism and for discourses of ethnic and national identity. The Aeneid has even been viewed as a template and a source of philosophical justification for British and American imperialism and adventurism. In his major new book Philip Hardie explores the many remarkable afterlives - ancient, medieval and modern - of the Aeneid in literature, music, politics, the visual arts and film.

The Shadow of Creusa
The Shadow of Creusa

Author: Anders Cullhed

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-04-24

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 3110388367

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Anders Cullhed’s study The Shadow of Creusa explores the early Christian confrontation with pagan culture as a remote anticipation of many later clashes between religious orthodoxy and literary fictionality. After a careful survey of Saint Augustine’s critical attitudes to ancient myth and poetry, summarized as a long drawn-out farewell, Cullhed examines other Late Antique dismissals as well as appropriations of the classical heritage. Macrobius, Martianus Capella and Boethius figure among the Late Antique intellectuals who attempted to save or even restore the old mythology by means of allegorical representation. On the other hand, pious poets such as Paulinus of Nola and Bible epic writers such as Iuvencus or Avitus of Vienne turned against pagan lies, and the mighty arch-bishop of Milan, Saint Ambrose, played off unconditional Christian truth against the last Roman strongholds of cultural pluralism. Thus, The Shadow of Creusa elucidates a cultural conflict which was to leave traces all through the Middle Ages and reach down to our present day.

Handbook of Patristic Exegesis
Handbook of Patristic Exegesis

Author: Charles Kannengiesser

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-11-28

Total Pages: 840

ISBN-13: 900453153X

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Through this comprehensive Handbook, the reader will obtain a balanced and cohesive picture of the Early Church. It gives an overall view of the reception, transmission, and interpretation of the Bible in the life and thought of the Church during the first five centuries of Christianity. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004098152).