Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, Tatian's Diatessaron: Its Creation, Dissemination, Significance, and History in Scholarship

A gospel harmony composed circa 172 AD, 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 a comprehensive treatment of the "Diatessaron". After sketching the 2nd-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. The text also contains a bibliography of research on the "Diatessaron" (over 600 titles) and a "Catalogue of Manuscripts of Diatessaronic Witnesses and Related Works".

ISBN 9004094695   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9789004094697 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1194 Publisher Brill Academic Publishers   Published in Leiden Imprint BRILL ACADEMIC PUB   Series editor Boeft, J. den, Broek, R.B. van den, Petersen, W.L. Format Hardback   Series ISSN 25 Publication date 01 Jan 1994   Series title Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Library of Congress 94002883   Height (mm) 245 DEWEY 226.1   Width (mm) 167 Pages 555

		Acknowledgements
		Preface
		Abbreviations
		Introduction		1
I		The Second-Century Background		9
II		Tatian		35
III		A History of Diatessaronic Studies and a Description of Diatessaronic Witnesses: From 546 to 1900		84
IV		A History of Diatessaronic Studies and a Description of Diatessaronic Witnesses: From 1900 to the 1930s		151
V		A History of Diatessaronic Studies and a Description of Diatessaronic Witnesses: From the 1930s to 1951		213
VI		A History of Diatessaronic Studies and a Description of Diatessaronic Witnesses: From 1951 to the Present		264
VII		Using the Diatessaron		357
VIII		The Present and the Future		426
		Appendix I: A Catalogue of Manuscripts of Diatessaronic Witnesses and Related Works		445
		Appendix II: A Stemma of the Diatessaronic Tradition		490
		Bibliography		491
		Index Locorum		523
		Index Codicum		532
		Index Auctorum		540
		Index Rerum		547

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