Patristic and text-critical studies : the collected essays of William L. Petersen /

William L. ("Bill") Petersen (1950-2006) was a prominent Diatessaron scholar and New Testament textual critic. This collection brings together thirty-two of his essays, enabling an overview of his impressive and wide-ranging scholarship on Romanos the Melodist, Tatian and his Diatessaron,...

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Main Author: Petersen, William Lawrence, 1950-2006.

Other Authors: Krans, Jan., Verheyden, Jozef.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents 40.
New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents Online, ISBN: 9789004411050.

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Call Number: BS2361.3 .P48 2012

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Chapter One The Parable of the Lost Sheep in the Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptics
  • Chapter Two Romanos and the Diatessaron: Readings and Method
  • Chapter Three The Dependence of Romanos the Melodist upon the Syriac Ephrem: Its Importance for the Origin of the Kontakion
  • Chapter Four Can Ἀρσενοκοῖται be Translated by "Homosexuals"? (1 Cor. 6.9; 1 Tim. 1.10)
  • Chapter Five New Evidence for the Question of the Original Language of the Diatessaron
  • Chapter Six An Important Unnoticed Diatessaronic Reading in Turfan Fragment M-18
  • Chapter Seven The Text of the Gospels in Origen's Commentaries on John and Matthew
  • Chapter Eight Some Remarks on the Integrity of Ephrem's Commentary on the Diatessaron
  • Chapter Nine On the Study of "Homosexuality" in Patristic Sources
  • Chapter Ten New Evidence for a Second Century Source of The Heliand
  • Chapter Eleven Textual Evidence of Tatian's Dependence upon Justin's Ἀπομνημονεύματα
  • Chapter Twelve The Dependence of Romanos the Melodist upon the Syriac Ephrem
  • Chapter Thirteen The Christology of Aphrahat, the Persian Sage: An Excursus on the 17th Demonstration
  • Chapter Fourteen Tatian's Diatessaron
  • Chapter Fifteen Eusebius and the Paschal Controversy
  • Chapter Sixteen What Text Can New Testament Textual Criticism Ultimately Reach?
  • Chapter Seventeen The Diatessaron of Tatian
  • Chapter Eighteen A New Testimonium to a Judaic-Christian Gospel Fragment from a Hymn of Romanos the Melodist
  • Chapter Nineteen From Justin to Pepys: The History of the Harmonized Gospel Tradition
  • Chapter Twenty Οὐδὲ ἐγώ σε [κατα]κρίνω: John 8:11, the Protevangelium Iacobi, and the History of the Pericope Adulterae
  • Chapter Twenty-One The Vorlage of Shem-Tob's 'Hebrew Matthew'
  • Chapter Twenty-Two Ephrem Syrus and the Venerable Bede: Do East and West Meet?
  • Chapter Twenty-Three Constructing the Matrix of Judaic Christianity from Texts
  • Chapter Twenty-Four The Genesis of the Gospels
  • Chapter Twenty-Five The Diatessaron and the Fourfold Gospel
  • Chapter Twenty-Six Tatian the Assyrian
  • Chapter Twenty-Seven Textual Traditions Examined: What the Text of the Apostolic Fathers Tells Us about the Text of the New Testament in the Second Century
  • Chapter Twenty-Eight Canonicity, Ecclesiastical Authority, and Tatian's Diatessaron
  • Chapter Twenty-Nine Problems in the Syriac New Testament and How Syrian Exegetes Solved Them
  • Chapter Thirty Patristic Biblical Quotations and Method: Four Changes to Lightfoot's Edition of Second Clement
  • Chapter Thirty-One Richard Bentley and New Testament Textual Criticism: Reverence and Irreverence
  • Chapter Thirty-Two The Syro-Latin Text of the Gospels, or How the "Western Text" Became a Phantom
  • Index.