Epohrem's commentary on the Syriac text of Tatian's Gospel Harmony has a two-fold value for the modern scholar ... it marks a foundational stage of biblical interpretation in the Syriac Church .,.. its other importance is as a vital textual witness to the Syriac Diatessaron text .... Sr McCarthy has provided a very clear and helpful English translation of the MS.
Alison Salvesen, Journal of Theological Studies, Vol. 47, No. 1, Apr '96
This is the first English translation of the commentary by fourth century AD theologian Ephrem the Syrian on the Diatessaron, a Gospel woven from the text of the four Gospels, which predates our earliest evidence of the official Syriac translation of the New Testament.
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This is the first English translation of the work of fourth-century theologian, Ephrem the Syrian, on the Diatessaron--a text woven from the four Gospels, which predates the earliest-known evidence of the official Syriac translation of the New Testament.
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Tatian's "Diatessaron"; Ephrem - theologian, poet and lyre of the Holy Spirit; the "Diatessaron Commentary" - textual considerations; features of this English translation; translation of Saint Ephrem's "Commentary on Tatian's Diatessaron".
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`Epohrem's commentary on the Syriac text of Tatian's Gospel Harmony has a two-fold value for the modern scholar ... it marks a foundational stage of biblical interpretation in the Syriac Church .,.. its other importance is as a vital textual witness to the Syriac Diatessaron text .... Sr McCarthy has provided a very clear and helpful English translation of the MS.'
Alison Salvesen, Journal of Theological Studies, Vol. 47, No. 1, Apr '96
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ISBN
9780199221639
Publisert
1993
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
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813 gr
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248 mm
Bredde
166 mm
Dybde
27 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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390
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