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Article: Book reviews -- Tatian's Diatessaron: Its Creation, Dissemination, Significance, and History in Scholarship by William L. Petersen
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- The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
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- January 1, 1996
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WILLIAM L. PETERSEN, Tatian's Diatessaron: Its Creation, Dissemination, Significance, and History in Scholarship (Supplements to VC 25; Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 1994). Pp. xx + 555. Nlg 220, $125.75.
Indispensable: that is what this book is for anyone interested in the Diatessaron, regardless of level of interest or expertise. There is no other volume on the subject that even begins to approach its breadth and depth of coverage, evenhandedness of evaluation, or ease of use.
A cursory survey of the contents reveals the encyclopedic range of the volume. After a brief introduction in which he outlines both the value of the study of the Diatessaron and obstacles to it, Petersen turns in ...