A View on the Integrity of the Syriac Commentary on the Diatessaron

Lange, Christian

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“…Although later tradition will suggest that Ephrem wrote commentaries on most books of the Bible, only his commentaries on Genesis and Exodus have been preserved today in Syriac. In addition, part of a commentary on the Diatessaron is ascribed to him, although it now appears that this work may have been written in part by Ephrem's disciples (Lange 2005). Other commentaries attributed to Ephrem are preserved only in Armenian, including one on the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline epistles, although there are questions about the genuineness of these texts.…”

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The Syriac World

King¹

2018

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THE SYRIAC WORLD'The Syriac World represents the most marvellous resource, not just for specialists in Syriac studies but also for scholars and students of global history and religion. Covering the broadest possible range of relevant topics, it brings together cutting-edge research by acknowledged experts, and succeeds in being both immensely learned and accessible. There is generous provision of maps, illustrations, and appendices, and the

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2018

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“…A Syriac manuscript of this commentary was discovered in 1957, with many missing pages being added in the following decades (McCarthy 1993). Since the original text of the Diatessaron is impossible to reconstruct, this is a very important witness, although recently doubts have been raised as to the commentary's authorship (Lange 2005). The Diatessaron's relationship to other biblical texts is also a contested issue.…”

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Diatessaron

Johnson¹

2012

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Re-imagining Tatian: The Damaging Effects of Polemical Rhetoric

Koltun-Fromm¹

2008

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Tatian, a second-century Christian apologist, is best known on the one hand for his much admired and only extant text, the Oratio ad Graecos, and on the other for heresy. Starting with Irenaeus, Tatian develops a reputation particularly among the western Fathers for heresy and extreme asceticism—including sexual renunciation, vegetarianism, and abstention from alcohol. In the late fourth century Tatian reappears as the reputed (and heretical) author of the Diatessaron, possibly the gospel harmony most popular in the Syriac-speaking churches. In medieval Syriac Christian writings, due to a conflation of these two earlier associations, Tatian's reputation transforms itself yet again. Thus, due to his presumed now generic-heretical standing, these authors further accuse Tatian of removing the NT genealogies from his harmonized text thus undermining the human element in christological theory. Yet I think it can be demonstrated that these two reputations—the one of heretical encratism, and the other of heretical Christology—in fact reflect polemical constructions created to deflect external anti-Christian polemic and internal cross-Christian conflict onto another group rather than historical reality.

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A View on the Integrity of the Syriac Commentary on the Diatessaron

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