Review: Juvencus’ Four Books of the Gospels: Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor, by Scott McGill

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Book Review| December 01 2017 Review: Juvencus’ Four Books of the Gospels: Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor, by Scott McGill Scott McGill, Juvencus’ Four Books of the Gospels: Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor. New York: Routledge, 2016. 308 pp. ISBN 9780415635837. $125.00. Blossom Stefaniw Blossom Stefaniw University of Halle Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Studies in Late Antiquity (2017) 1 (4): 407–409. https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2017.1.4.407 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Blossom Stefaniw; Review: Juvencus’ Four Books of the Gospels: Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor, by Scott McGill. Studies in Late Antiquity 1 December 2017; 1 (4): 407–409. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2017.1.4.407 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentStudies in Late Antiquity Search Scott McGill has made available in English translation the first of the Latin biblical epics and the first known hexameter poem dedicated to Christian subject matter. With the publication of this volume, the entire poem is accessible in a modern European language for the first time. This is a great feat for the integration of a significant text to the teaching and study of early Christianity, quite apart from the linguistic heroism required to translate more than 3000 lines of dactylic hexameter into very respectable English verse. The book itself is straightforward, consisting of a roughly 20-page introduction and very copious and valuable notes that give details of intertextual allusions, clarifications of references to the gospel stories, and literary commentary. The text of the poem is correlated in the right hand margin with the passages from the canonical gospels to which it refers. The poem itself takes up 78 print... You do not currently have access to this content.