The earliest Latin interpretation of the Gospels has been brought to light by a British academic – and it suggests that readers should not take the Bible literally.
Lost for 1,500 years, the fourth-century commentary by African-born Italian bishop Fortunatianus of Aquileia interprets the Gospels as a series of allegories instead of a literal history.
Dr Hugh Houghton, of the University of Birmingham, who translated the work, said it was an approach which modern Christians could learn from.
The lost work by Fortunatianus, Bishop of of Aquileia in the middle of the fourth century, was rediscovered in 2012 by an Austrian researcher, Dr Lukas J. Dorfbauer, in a manuscript from the early ninth century held in in Cologne Cathedral.
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