Tatian's Diatessaron: composition, redaction, recension, and reception
Covering the widest array of manuscript evidence to date, this book reconstructs the compositional and editorial practices by which Tatian the Assyrian wrote his Gospel.
| Summary: | Covering the widest array of manuscript evidence to date, this book reconstructs the compositional and editorial practices by which Tatian the Assyrian wrote his Gospel. 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. |
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| ISBN: | 019265893X |