The Diatessaron of Tatian and the Synoptic Problem: Being an Investigation of the Diatessaron for the Light Which It Throws Upon the Solution of the ... of the Synoptic Gospels (Classic Reprint)

I. THE facts concerning Tatian's Diatessaron, so far as they have been
discovered, are well known to scholars. Since Th. Zahn's work (published
in 1881) upon Ephraem's Commentary on the Diatessaron, and
especially since Ciasca's publication of the Arabic Diatessaron (1888),
much labor has been expended upon the problems connected with this
important work of Tatian's. The latest, and perhaps the most complete,
summary of results in the investigation of the literary notices of
Tatian and his work, and as regards questions arising from such study,
is to be found in Hjelt's work (see Hj.). Though this work is apparently
indebted,,;:e a great degree, to the earlier publication of Zahn, it
is briefer than the latter and brings the discussion down to the present
time. This recent statement makes it unnecessary to repeat the facts
readily accessible in it. It will suffice to say that scholars have
reached quite g~neral agreement on a number of points: which, so
far as we ne

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TABLE OF CONTENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INTRODUCTION; I Review of the Situation; 2 Statement of the Problem of this Dissertation; 3 The Text Employed, its Limitations and Value; a) General Order; b) Detailed Readings; 4 Notes on Method; CHAPTER 1 Tatian's Preference for One Source or Another-; CHAPTER II The Plan of the Diatessaron; CHAPTER III Alterations in Order; CHAPTER IV Additions and Omissions; CHAPTER V Conflations; CHAPTER VI Rewriting; CHAPTER VII Incongruities and Repetitions -; CHAPTER VIII Com parison of the Methods of Tatian and the; Evangelists; PAGES; 7,8; 9-32; 33-40; 41-45; 46-49; 50-54; 55-61; 62-67; 68-74; 75-81

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