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

Dexter Garnier sohncom at telis.org
Mon Jun 29 07:35:26 EDT 1998


Mark Goodacre wrote:

>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

Dear Mark,

Many thanks for the interesting reply. W. Petersen on pp. 199-200 of
his book on the Diatessaron which I referred to previously, cites
D. Plooij as being "less than certain" that the fragment was from the
Diatessaron. The possibility is suggested that the fragment might be
from a passion harmony originally in Syriac translated into Greek.
The evidence as presented does seem to indicate a Syriac original.
One example being the spelling of Arimathea as *E*RI*N*MAQAIA[S]
in the fragment vs. canonical ARIMAQAIAS, with the *E* being due
to aural confusion in Syriac between alaf and ain, and the *N* being
due to confusion between Syriac yud and nun which are very similar
in appearance.

So there should be much interest in the forthcoming article. I will
second the request I have just read from Larry Swain that you inform
us when it is published.

Thanks again,

Dexter Garnier

PS The bibliography for the D. Plooij comments is (from Petersen):
D. Plooij _A Fragment of Tatian's Diatessaron in Greek_ ET 46 (1934/35), 
471-76.



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