The Diatesseron's Peshitta Pedigree.

[Paul Younan]

It's all starting to come together - this mysterious "Evangelion de Mepherreshe" that he spoke of, that he forced down the throat of the Edessan churches....it was Old Scratch all along - and the manuscript ends with the very name that Rabbula used.

Now you bring up this good point - the origins of these two manuscripts just by chance happen to be mid-fifth century? I don't think so.

Keep in mind too - these manuscripts aren't actually carbon-dated to that time period - they judged by the style of the writing that it would have been from around that time. I think the manuscripts are actually a lot younger than the 5th century - I remember reading something like that, but I'll have to check to be sure.