Tatian’s Diatessaron: Its Creation, Dissemination, Significance, and History in Scholarship

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by  William Lawrence Petersen

TATIAN'S DIATESSARON
SUPPLEMENTS TO
VIGILIAE CHRISTIANAE
FormerlY Philosophia Patrum
TEXTS AND STUDIES OF EARLY CHRISTIAN LIFE
AND LANGUAGE
EDITORS
J. DEN BOEFT - R. VAN DEN BROEK - A. F.J. KLIJN
G. QUISPEL -J.C.M. VAN WINDEN
VOLUME XXV
TATIAN'S DIATESSARON
ITS CREATION, DISSEMINATION, SIGNIFICANCE,
AND HISTORY IN SCHOIARSHIP
BY
WILLIAM L. PETERSEN
EJ. BRILL
LEIDEN . NEW YORK· KOLN
1994
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Tatian's Diatessaron : its creation, dissemination, significance,
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements .................................................................. ix
Preface ....................................................................................... Xlll
Abbreviations ............................................................................ xv
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