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The Diatessaron of Tatian: A Harmony of the Four Gospels Compiled in the Third Quarter of the Second Century (Classic Reprint)
The Diatessaron of Tatian A Harmony of the Four Gospels Compiled in the Third Quarter of the Second Century - Classic Reprint Author:Samuel Hemphill INTRODUCTION I. THE MAN T ATI AX. The City of Rome-the Eternal City, as it is called-has witnessed many a strange revolution of the wheel of Fortune. This very year a book has there issued from the press, which well illustrates the truth of this remark. It is an Arabic work of the tenth century, a translation of a lost Syriac original; and it be... more »ars on its title page the famous name of "Tattan's Ifarm&ny of the Gospels*1 while its inscription is to Pope Leo XIII. as the choicest offering which the Scribes of the Vatican library could contribute towards the recent celebration of his Jubilee. Yet, seventeen centuries ago, what heartburnings the very mention of that same Tatian would have caused in the Church of Rome I And how many painful incidents could the elder Christians of that city have then recounted, of the controversies which had raged round his person some score of years before,and which had led to his withdrawal from among them, branded with, the stigma of heresy, and may
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CONTENTS; Introduction; i The Man Tatian vii; ii The Diatessaron in the Early Church x; in The Recovery of the Diatessaron xx; Tatian's Gospel Diatessaron, the contents indicated according to the Arabic, and the fragments contained in the Commentary of Ephraem Syrus translated and arranged i; ppendix A; The Hypothesis of a Greek Original 53; Appendix B; The Capita of the Latin Harmony, reprinted; from Ranke's edition of the Codex Fuldensis 55; ppendix C; The Epitome constructed from some Greek; fragments by Luscinius 63; Appendix D; Western Influence of the Diatessaron in the; Middle Ages 70; vppendix E; Peculiar readings of the Ephraem fragments, in their relation to the Arabic, the Curetonian, and the Peshitto 74
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