The Diatessaron FAQ

[yuku]

Now that's an excellent and fair treatment!

Thank you very much, Akhi Paul. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s -->

You even made the effort to say that it was used in Syria, and made no mention about Persia and the Church of the East (in Persia!)

The only bone I have to pick with it is your mention of Aphrahat. So far, you have given no examples of Aphrahat quoting the Diatesseron. None whatsoever.

Well, see my new post today about "the Rich Man".

You only gave one example of his supposed quote of Old Scratch, which is completely subjective since the Aramaic word order is completely different - proving that Aphrahat was freely paraphrasing rather than quoting anything, let alone Old Scratch. As I stated before - the Diatesseron and Old Scratch are two completely different things. And the quote you gave actually proves that Mar Aphrahat did NOT use the Diatesseron - since the words "before God" are not present in the earliest and most trustworthy translations of the Diatesseron.

But I would suppose that, since the words "before God" _are_ present in the Persian Diatessaron, and in the Magdalene Gospel, that these would be the earlier, and the more trustworthy versions of the Diatesseron, as compared to those versions of the Diatessaron that lack these words...

Also, you wrote as follows in a later post,

Since the Diatesseron doesn't actually exist - and may never have actually existed in Aramaic ...

But I would think that Ephrem's Commentary on the Diatessaron provides a pretty good indication that an ancient version of the Diatessaron did exist in Aramaic.

Pretty soon, I will post here the last part of this article, that deals with what I see as the 3 biggest Diatessaronic Paradoxes.

Shlama,

Yuri.