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