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Author | : William L. Petersen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2015-12-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004312927 |
A gospel harmony composed c. 172 C.E., the Diatessaron is one of the earliest witnesses to the gospels. Regarded as the first version of the gospels in Latin, Syriac, and Armenian, the Diatessaron was used by Encratites, Judaic-Christians, and “Great Church” Christians alike. This study is the first comprehensive treatment of the Diatessaron in more than a century. After sketching the second-century setting and Tatian's biography, it describes virtually every Diatessaronic witness and provides a scholar-by-scholar summary of research from 546 to the present. Criteria for reconstructing Diatessaronic readings are developed, and numerous examples offer the reader first-hand experience with the witnesses. It contains the first Bibliography of research on the Diatessaron (600+ titles) and the first “Catalogue of Manuscripts of Diatessaronic Witnesses and Related Works” ever published.
Author | : James W. Barker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2022-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019284458X |
In the late-second century, Tatian the Assyrian constructed a new Gospel by intricately harmonizing Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Tatian's work became known as the Diatessaron, since it was derived 'out of the four' eventually canonical Gospels. Though it circulated widely for centuries, the Diatessaron disappeared in antiquity. Nevertheless, numerous ancient and medieval harmonies survive in various languages. Some texts are altogether independent of the Diatessaron, while others are definitely related. Yet even Tatian's known descendants differ in large and small ways, so attempts at reconstruction have proven confounding. In this book James W. Barker forges a new path in Diatessaron studies. Covering the widest array of manuscript evidence to date, Tatian's Diatessaron reconstructs the compositional and editorial practices by which Tatian wrote his Gospel. By sorting every extant witnesses according to its narrative sequence, the macrostructure of Tatian's Gospel becomes clear. Despite many shared agreements, there remain significant divergences between eastern and western witnesses. This book argues that the eastern ones preserve Tatian's order, whereas the western texts descend from a fourth-century recension of the Diatessaron. Victor of Capua and his scribe used the recension to produce the Latin Codex Fuldensis in the sixth century. More controversially, Barker offers new evidence that late medieval texts such as the Middle Dutch Stuttgart harmony independently preserve traces of the western recension. This study uncovers the composition and reception history behind one of early Christianity's most elusive texts.
Author | : William Lawrence Petersen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004094697 |
A comprehensive study of one of the earliest witnesses to the gospels ("c." 172): its composition, dissemination, description of the surviving witnesses and a history of scholarship; it offers criteria for reconstruction and their application in examples. Exhaustive Bibliography and Catalogue of Witnesses are provided.
Author | : Samuel Hemphill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Christian biography |
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Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Christian literature, Early |
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Author | : Saint Ephraem (Syrus) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
This is the first English translation of the commentary by fourth century AD theologian Ephrem the Syrian on the Diatessaron, a Gospel woven from the text of the four Gospels, which predates our earliest evidence of the official Syriac translation of the New Testament.
Author | : Robert F. Shedinger |
Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789042910423 |
It has long been argued that Tatian, in the production of the Diatessaron, made regular reference to the Old Testament Peshitta when he came across Old Testament citations in the Gospels. This book argues on the contrary that Tatian made little or no use of the Old Testament Peshitta, but regularly took over the text of the Old Testament citations as he found them in the Gospel sources out of which he created his harmony. Where they differ from the form of these citations in the standard Greek text tradition of the Gospels, it is because, in the second century, Tatian had access to Gospel sources which may have varied significantly from the text of the later manuscripts on which our modern critical editions are based. Thus, Tatian's Diatessaron becomes a window into an early state of the Gospel texts and supports the idea that a significant amount of textual fluidity characterized the Gospel texts in the first two centuries of their transmission. This study will be of interest to those working in the fields of Diatessaronic studies, New Testament Textual Criticism, and the history of the Syriac Church.
Author | : William Lawrence Petersen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : Matthew R. Crawford |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2019-07-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567679896 |
This volume combines some of the leading voices on the composition and collection of early Christian gospels in order to analyze Tatian's Diatessaron. The rapid rise and sudden suppression of the Diatessaron has raised numerous questions about the nature and intent of this second-century composition. It has been claimed as both a vindication of the fourfold gospel's early canonical status and as an argument for the canon's on-going fluidity; it has been touted as both a premiere witness to the earliest recoverable gospel text and as an early corrupting influence on that text. Collectively, these essays provide the greatest advance in Diatessaronic scholarship in a quarter of a century. The contributors explore numerous questions: did Tatian intend to supplement or supplant the fourfold gospel? How many were his sources and how free was he with their text? How do we identify a Diatessaronic witness? Is it legitimate to use Tatian's Diatessaron as a source in New Testament textual criticism? Is a reconstruction of the Diatessaron still possible? These queries in turn contribute to the question of what the Diatessaron signifies with respect to the broader context of gospel writing, and what this can tell us about how the writing, rewriting and reception of gospel material functioned in the first and second centuries and beyond.
Author | : Gilles Quispel |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2023-08-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004676880 |