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 >>