Tatian's Diatessaron : composition, redaction, recension, and reception / James W. Barker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barker, James W. (James William), author.

Series:

Oxford early Christian studies.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford early Christian studies

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tatian, approximately 120-173.

Bible. Gospels--Syriac--Diatessaron.

Bible.

Bible. Gospels.

Tatian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Covering the widest array of manuscript evidence to date, this text reconstructs the compositional and editorial practices by which Tatian the Assyrian wrote his Gospel.

Contents:

Cover

Tatian's Diatessaron: Composition, Redaction, Recension, and Reception

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1: An Overview of Diatessaron Witnesses

1.1 Eastern Witnesses

1.1.1 The Arabic Harmony

1.1.2 Ephrem's Commentary

1.1.3 Aphrahat's Demonstrations

1.2 Western Witnesses

1.2.1 Codex Fuldensis and Its Copies

1.2.2 The Stuttgart-Liège-Zurich Harmonies and Their Offshoots

1.3 Unrelated and Distantly Related Harmonies

1.4 The Dura Europos Fragment as a Bridge between East and West

1.5 Summary

2: Tatian's Compositional Practices

2.1 Mental Processes and Material Production

2.2 How Long was Tatian's Diatessaron?

2.3 Tatian's Authorial Expectations

3: Characteristics of the Diatessaron's Sequence

3.1 Jewish Festivals and the Chronology of Jesus's Ministry

3.1.1 Ephrem's Suppression of Jewish Festivals

3.1.2 Tatian's Sequence of Jewish Festivals

3.1.3 Derivative Reorientation toward John's Chronology

3.2 A Nonviolent Conclusion to Jesus's (First) Sermon at Nazareth

3.3 A Blessing upon Jesus's Mother, Who Happens to be Nearby

3.4 Intercalating the Pharisees' Warning after the Transfiguration

3.5 A Sukkoth Parade of Money Men

3.6 Gathering the Pharisees in Jerusalem

3.7 Tatian's Redactional Tendencies

4: Quintessential Changes in the Western Archetype

4.1 Eliminating Redundancies

4.1.1 Calling Tax Collectors and the Sign of Jonah

4.1.2 Exorcisms of Speech Impairment and the Beelzebub Controversy

4.1.3 Mark's Blind Man at Bethsaida

4.1.4 Anointing(s)

4.1.5 Satan and Judas

4.2 Combining the Sermon on the Mount/Plain and Mission Discourse

4.3 Relocating Capernaum Miracles to Nain

4.4 Editorial Fatigue in the Return of the Twelve

4.5 Grouping the Shrewd Steward with the Sukkoth Money Men.

4.6 Nicodemus, the Adulteress, and the Fig Tree

4.7 The Timing of Judas's Suicide

4.8 The Western Recensionist's Redactional Tendencies

5: The Priority of Codex Fuldensis

5.1 Interpolations in the Stuttgart-Liège-Zurich Harmonies

5.2 The Timing of the Outsider Exorcist

5.3 Matthew's Parable of the Talents and Luke's Parable of the Minas

5.4 The Last Supper and Jesus's Washing of the Disciples' Feet

5.5 Resurrection Appearances to Mary Magdalene

5.6 The Stuttgart-Liège-Zurich Harmonies' Redactional Tendencies

6: The Priority of the Stuttgart-Liège-Zurich Harmonies

6.1 The Absence of the Lukan Prologue

6.2 The Timing of the Triumphal Entry

6.3 The Presence of Luke's Parable of the Faithful Slave

6.4 The Presence of the Capernaum Synagogue Exorcism

6.4.1 The Sequence of the Western Archetype

6.4.2 The Wording of the Western Archetype

6.5 Victor of Capua and His Scribe's Redactional Tendencies

7: The Western Archetype as a Sufficient Hypothesis

7.1 Prefaces to the Western Harmonies

7.2 The Insufficiency of Extant Glossed Manuscripts

7.3 Circularity versus Alternating Primitivity

7.4 A Stemma of Diatessaron Witnesses

7.5 The Fate of the Western Archetype

Conclusion

Appendix: Comparison of Sequences of the Arabic Harmony, Stuttgart-Liège-Zurich Harmonies, and Codex Fuldensis

Bibliography

Manuscripts

Electronic Resources

Editions and Translations

Secondary Literature

Scripture Index

Index of Medieval Manuscripts

Index of Modern Authors

Subject Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780192658920

9780191933226

OCLC:

1280068303