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Diatessaron (Gospel Harmony)

Diatessaron · Διὰ τεσσάρων

About the English. Route 2: the Diatessaron survives complete only in Arabic (and Latin, Armenian, Old Syriac commentary); none of these is a site language and no usable original is in hand, so the English is Hope W. Hogg's 1896 translation of the Arabic, published as it stands. No original-language text is shown.

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About this work

Author
Tatian
Attribution
authentic · The Gospel harmony Tatian compiled (Greek or Syriac, ca. 170) is lost as such; the Arabic version (11th century, from the Syriac) is the witness translated by Hogg. Its wording is the Arabic translator's and later copyists', not necessarily Tatian's.
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Read in the Syrian churches as their gospel text until the 5th century, though Tatian later left the church.
Date
ca. 160-180 (approximate) · Compiled by Tatian, probably in Syria or Rome, after his break with Justin's circle; the Arabic text here is much later.
Written at
Syria or Rome (disputed)
Language
Greek
Genre
other
Reference system
Hogg's 55 sections (Roman numerals in ANF 9), cited by section number
SBL abbreviation
Diatess.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG 1106 (not yet checked)
Text from
Hope W. Hogg, trans., The Diatessaron of Tatian, in Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 9, ed. Allan Menzies (Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing, 1896), 33-138 (from Ciasca's Arabic edition, Rome 1888) (Printed translation in the public domain)