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TATIAN’S CHRISTOLOGY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE COMPOSITION OF THE DIATESSARON – Peter M. Head

Posted by admin on Dec 30, 2013 in Articles, Library | 5 comments

Introduction   ‘Tatian did not only re-arrange the evangelical tradition into a harmony, but when composing the Diatessaron left his fingerprints on its pages’.[1]  Vööbus’ statement concerning Tatian’s Diatessaron has been reformulated recently in Petersen’s survey of research: ‘like any document created in a particular time and place, the Diatessaron reflects the theology and praxis of its locale’.[2]  The aim of this article is to investigate whether christological factors played any significant role in Tatian’s composition.  This issue is important for two reasons. ...