Saint Ephrem''s Commentary on Tatian''s Diatessaron - An English Translation of Chester Beatty Syriac Ms 709 With

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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• Authors: Saint Ephraem, Syrus Ephraem, Saint Ephrem, Carmel McCarthy
• Assisted by: Carmel McCarthy (Editor), Carmel McCarthy (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.1993
• EAN: 9780199221639
• ISBN: 978-0-19-922163-9
• No. of pages: 390
• Series: Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement; Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement; Journal of Semitic Studies Sup
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity