Saint Ephrem's Commentary on Tatian's Diatessaron: An English Translation of Chester Beatty Syriac MS 709

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Oxford University Press, 1993 - Literary Criticism - 381 pages
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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TRANSLATION OF SAINT EPHREMS COMMENTARY
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Index of Biblical References
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Carmel McCarthy is at University College, Dublin.

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