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book of Hebrews: better from Greek, or Aramaic?
"It was a very important work for Syriac speaking Christians before the 5th century"
Indeed.

_The Diatessaron of Tatian: a harmony of the four Gospels compiled in the third quarter of the second century_ (1888), xxxi + 78pp, x, xvi
https://archive.org/stream/diatessaronof...a_djvu.txt
It has been tacitly assumed, because Tatian taught at Rome, wrote his other works in Greek, (which was the usual language at Rome in his day), and gave a Greek name to his compilation of the Gospels, that therefore it was written in Greek, and belonged in a manner to the western sphere of its author's labours. Yet, from the whole body of western Christian literature which we have before us, it is scarcely possible to glean any allusion at all to the Diatessaron before the middle of the sixth century....

So far therefore as early non-Syrian Christianity is concerned, we may safely say that the Diatessaron exercised practically no influence before the sixth century : and even the little that we do read of it in Eusebius and Epiphanius confirms the conclusion that it could not have belonged to that portion of Tatian's life in which he flourished at Rome, but to that later portion in which he laboured among his Syrian fellow-countrymen.
At any rate history begins to find her voice the moment we touch Syrian soil : and we there find the Diatessaron "at home." Take Theodoret for example, the Bishop of Cyrrhus near the Euphrates. ....
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RE: book of Hebrews: better from Greek, or Aramaic? - by DavidFord - 12-15-2019, 03:11 AM

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