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Commentary on the Diatessaron

Written about 360 to 373, perhaps in Edessa (now Şanlıurfa, Turkey). The date is disputed or rests on weak evidence.

A commentary on Tatian's single Gospel.

Commentary · first written in Syriac · a major work

The one corpus file is an 1895 study with fragments and heavy scan damage. It is not a reading text.

Not yet on the site. We have not yet found an English translation of this work that is in the public domain.

How we know the date and place

Date written not sure

McCarthy, Saint Ephrem's Commentary on Tatian's Diatessaron (1993); parts may be by his pupils

Place written not sure

Put in his last years at Edessa (McCarthy 1993)