Dura-Europos (was: Re: Harmonization of Gospels)

Mark Goodacre M.S.Goodacre at bham.ac.uk
Sun Jun 28 20:25:58 EDT 1998


Dexter Garnier wrote:

>Would Tatian's Diatessaron qualify? It is the earliest known
>harmony of the gospels (c. 150). It can be found in vol. 9 of
>The Ante-Nicene Fathers. This translation into English is
>from two Arabic mss.

>Only a very small fragment has ever been found in Greek --
>and that in Dura Europos in 1933. It's date and provenance
>is a matter of debate among scholars. C. Kraeling dates it
>to the first half of the third century.

Actually the Dura-Europos fragment may well not be a fragment of 
Tatian.  We have been working on the fragment here in Birmingham and 
shortly our article on this should be published.  It features a new 
reconstruction of the text as well as documentation of the 
unlikelihood that this is part of the Diatessaron.

All the best

Mark
-------------------------------------------
Dr Mark Goodacre    M.S.Goodacre at bham.ac.uk
 Dept. of Theology, University of Birmingham
Homepage: http://www.bham.ac.uk/theology/goodacre
 (Please note new address)




More information about the B-Greek mailing list