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Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
Preliminary Material -- Chapter One The Parable of the Lost Sheep in the Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptics -- Chapter Two Romanos and the Diatessaron: Readings and Method -- Chapter Three The Dependence of Romanos the Melodist upon the Syriac Ephrem: Its Importance for the Origin of the Kontakion -- Chapter Four Can Ἀρσενοκοῖται be Translated by “Homosexuals”? (1 Cor. 6.9; 1 Tim. 1.10) -- Chapter Five New Evidence for the Question of the Original Language of the Diatessaron -- Chapter Six An Important Unnoticed Diatessaronic Reading in Turfan Fragment M-18 -- Chapter Seven The Text of the Gospels in Origen’s Commentaries on John and Matthew -- Chapter Eight Some Remarks on the Integrity of Ephrem’s Commentary on the Diatessaron -- Chapter Nine On the Study of “Homosexuality” in Patristic Sources -- Chapter Ten New Evidence for a Second Century Source of The Heliand -- Chapter Eleven Textual Evidence of Tatian’s Dependence upon Justin’s Ἀπομνημονεύματα -- Chapter Twelve The Dependence of Romanos the Melodist upon the Syriac Ephrem -- Chapter Thirteen The Christology of Aphrahat, the Persian Sage: An Excursus on the 17th Demonstration -- Chapter Fourteen Tatian’s Diatessaron -- Chapter Fifteen Eusebius and the Paschal Controversy -- Chapter Sixteen What Text Can New Testament Textual Criticism Ultimately Reach? -- Chapter Seventeen The Diatessaron of Tatian -- Chapter Eighteen A New Testimonium to a Judaic-Christian Gospel Fragment from a Hymn of Romanos the Melodist -- Chapter Nineteen From Justin to Pepys: The History of the Harmonized Gospel Tradition -- Chapter Twenty Οὐδὲ ἐγώ σε [κατα]κρίνω: John 8:11, the Protevangelium Iacobi, and the History of the Pericope Adulterae -- Chapter Twenty-One The Vorlage of Shem-Tob’s ‘Hebrew Matthew’ -- Chapter Twenty-Two Ephrem Syrus and the Venerable Bede: Do East and West Meet? -- Chapter Twenty-Three Constructing the Matrix of Judaic Christianity from Texts -- Chapter Twenty-Four The Genesis of the Gospels -- Chapter Twenty-Five The Diatessaron and the Fourfold Gospel -- Chapter Twenty-Six Tatian the Assyrian -- Chapter Twenty-Seven Textual Traditions Examined: What the Text of the Apostolic Fathers Tells Us about the Text of the New Testament in the Second Century -- Chapter Twenty-Eight Canonicity, Ecclesiastical Authority, and Tatian’s Diatessaron -- Chapter Twenty-Nine Problems in the Syriac New Testament and How Syrian Exegetes Solved Them -- Chapter Thirty Patristic Biblical Quotations and Method: Four Changes to Lightfoot’s Edition of Second Clement -- Chapter Thirty-One Richard Bentley and New Testament Textual Criticism: Reverence and Irreverence -- Chapter Thirty-Two The Syro-Latin Text of the Gospels, or How the “Western Text” Became a Phantom -- Index.
William L. (“Bill”) Petersen (1950-2006) was a prominent Diatessaron scholar and New Testament textual critic. This collection brings together thirty-two of his essays, enabling an overview of his impressive and wide-ranging scholarship on Romanos the Melodist, Tatian and his Diatessaron, Patristic studies, and New Testament textual criticism. It will be of value for all those interested in the state and method of these fields of study, on which it offers engaging and sometimes provocative perspectives