The five-book hexameter refutation of Marcion's dualism has been edited and translated only in German: Karla Pollmann's Das Carmen adversus Marcionitas: Einleitung, Text, Ubersetzung und Kommentar (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1991) is the standard work, and HOLLIS returns no English version of the poem (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Carmen%20adversus%20Marcionitas&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The other records are German dissertations of 1894 and 1936 and a 2024 collection of essays on late Latin poetic rewriting, none of them a translation (same URL). White's Early Christian Latin Poets does not include the poem (https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/alma990085386220203941). No open electronic text was verified: the Pollmann volume on Internet Archive is access-restricted, so no etext is recorded here.
This is the only Latin verse refutation of Marcionism to survive, and it preserves a full poetic argument about the unity of the two Testaments that the prose heresiologists do not give in the same form. It has never been translated into English, and even its Latin text is effectively confined to a single German commentary, so English readers have no access to it at all - not even a sample in an anthology.
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| Das Carmen adversus Marcionitas: Einleitung, Text, Ubersetzung und Kommentar · not verified · Karla Pollmann · 1991 |
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| Theology and society in the second and third centuries of the Hijra : a history of religious thought in Early Islam | Ess, Josef van. "Theology and society in the second and third centuries of the Hijra : a history of religious thought in Early Islam." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017-2020]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990148945880203941 |