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  • From: Polycarp66 AT aol.com
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: JEPD Evidence - Diatessaron
  • Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 21:49:06 EST


In a message dated 12/21/99 9:00:12 PM Central Daylight Time,
scarlson AT mindspring.com writes:

<< >>Tatian's Diatesseron is a document known to be composed of the four
gospels.
>>If the only gospel that survived was the Diatesseron, would scholars be
>>wrong to subdivide it into four sources?
>No, but then this is an entirely different circumstance. Aren't the four
>traditions separated already clearly in the text? I thought they were in
>columns, but then I might be thinking of the hexapla. There is a big
>difference between this and postulating a number of hypothetical sources
>which no one can be sure existed (and no one agrees upon the extent,
>definition, context and characteristics of).

I believe you are thinking of the Hexapla. If you want to read an on-line
version of the Diatessaron (apparently a translation of the Arabic version),
please visit:
http://ccel.wheaton.edu/fathers2/ANF-10/anf10-07.htm >>

That's now

<A HREF="http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-10/anf10-07.htm";>http://ccel.org/fat
hers2/ANF-10/an/10-07.htm</A>

The CCEL site has moved from Wheaton to Calvin.

gfsomsel




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