Posts: 12
Threads: 5
Joined: Nov 2004
Reputation:
0
Gorgias Press has the Diatessaron by J Hamlyn Hill. I bought this book. I like the idea of a single gospel account, and I think that the Peshitta's content can be interwoven in the same format. Paul, you talk of the Diatessaron's Peshitta pedigree, so that means it should be straightforward to reconstruct using the current Peshitta right?
Thanks
Posts: 28
Threads: 12
Joined: Feb 2005
Reputation:
0
Diatessaron is a fascinating area actually.
But I think Mr Yuku has done some important work in considering whether it was actually written by Tatian at all. I do also personally prefer the idea of one continuous Gospel account. Apparently, Syrian Churches used this for ages. Does anyone know if it actually formed part of the Pshitta, in a 'Bible' form as such.
Whoever did the Diatessaron actually did a fine job in getting round the problem of parallels and the like.
Posts: 376
Threads: 21
Joined: Nov 2007
Reputation:
0
I have to agree with Lector in saying that the GOH is probably not the same as the Diatessaron. Look, for instance, at Jerome's quotations of the GOH. Many of them are from an entirely separate Gospel, not from the Diatessaron. The theory that it is from Matthew also seems unlikely. George Howard has pointed out the problems with that theory (I think Ray Pritz touched on them aswell).
However, I think that the GOH was preserved by the Nazarenes long after the Ebionites had mutilated it. This would be where Jerome and later Church writers got their quotations of it from.
Shalom,
David