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In the late-second century, Tatian the Assyrian constructed a new
Gospel by intricately harmonizing Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Tatian's work became known as the Diatessaron, since it was derived
'out of the four' eventually canonical Gospels. Though it
circulated widely for centuries, the Diatessaron disappeared in
antiquity. Nevertheless, numerous ancient and medieval harmonies
survive in various languages. Some texts are altogether independent
of the Diatessaron, while others are definitely related. Yet even
Tatian's known descendants differ in large and small ways, so
attempts at reconstruction have proven confounding. In this book
James W. Barker forges a new path in Diatessaron studies. Covering
the widest array of manuscript evidence to date, Tatian's
Diatessaron reconstructs the compositional and editorial practices
by which Tatian wrote his Gospel. By sorting every extant witnesses
according to its narrative sequence, the macrostructure of Tatian's
Gospel becomes clear. Despite many shared agreements, there remain
significant divergences between eastern and western witnesses. This
book argues that the eastern ones preserve Tatian's order, whereas
the western texts descend from a fourth-century recension of the
Diatessaron. Victor of Capua and his scribe used the recension to
produce the Latin Codex Fuldensis in the sixth century. More
controversially, Barker offers new evidence that late medieval
texts such as the Middle Dutch Stuttgart harmony independently
preserve traces of the western recension. This study uncovers the
composition and reception history behind one of early
Christianity's most elusive texts.
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