11-30-2003, 10:09 PM
Paul Younan Wrote:Shlama Akhay,
Read almost any encyclopedia or commentary on the New Testament, and you are bound to come across a reference to Rabbula (died 433 A.D.), the Monophysite "Tyrant of Edessa", supposedly "suppressing" the Diatesseron - which they claim was the "earliest" gospel in Aramaic.
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This date seems to fit more or less with the dates given here for the Old Syriac. If indeed Rabulla is rresponsible for the Old Syriac.
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1. Old Syriac Codex Sinaiticus, dated to the mid- or late-fourth century.
2. Old Syriac Codex Curetonianus, dated to the early fifth century.