Harmony of the Gospels in Rhyming Verse: an Epic Poem on the Life of Jesus Christ

The Harmony of the Gospels in Rhyming Verse is achronological record of the life, death, resurrection and ascension of JesusChrist. The book is an epic poem that contains divisions and subdivisions.  Each incident is accompaniedby the reference texts in which the event is recorded by any or all of thegospel writers: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The reader  will also find a  table for locating any passage in the Harmony, so that  a preacher or teacher can use poetry to supplement  a gospel passage with a rhyming parallel to enrich his exegesis.  The Chronology and the divisionsof the poem are based upon the work of the renowned John A Broadus and his student, A. T. Robertson, whose publications date back to 1893 and 1903 respectively. They printed all four gospels, skillfully arranged in parallel columns, inorder to portray the course and development of Christ's life and ministry. The NIV Harmony of the Gospels is a revised Edition of theirwork, edited by Robert L. Thomas and Stanley N. Gundry. By adopting the outline of thesescholars, Rev. Taylor has  combined thefour parallel columns into the most ancient form that harmonists have used. Tatian, who lived about A. D. 170, wove the four gospels into one continuousnarrative called the Diatesseron.. Scores of harmonists, especially since the Protestant reformation, havefollowed in his steps. Although his work is done in the Diatesseron mode, Pastor Taylor's book is unique in that itis an epic poem, written in rhyming verse. VBible scholars have noted thateighty to ninety percent of Jesus' words were originally in poetic form. Thisdoes not mean that they were in rhyming verse, but the meter, balanced lines,parallelism and so forth, created a great memory help. Since most of thesequalities have been lost when the Greek text has been translated into theEnglish language, a paraphrase in rhyming verse provides a similar aid formemory enhancement. Christian missionaries havereached the most remote tribes to translate the Scriptur