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In the 20th century, the Synopsis of the Four Gospels by Kurt Aland [37] came to be seen by some as "perhaps the standard for an in-depth study of the Gospels." [9] A key feature of Aland's work is the incorporation of the full text of the Gospel of John. [9]
He is one of the four Evangelists featured in the Godescalc Evangelistary. Like other gospel books, the Godescalc Evangelistary includes portraits of the four Evangelists. The number of Evangelists was settled c. 200 when Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons in Gaul decreed that the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, were the Canonical Gospels.
The gospels each derive, all or some of, its material from a common proto-gospel (Ur-Gospel), possibly in Hebrew or Aramaic. Q+/Papias (Mark–Q/Matthew) Each document drew from each of its predecessors, including Logoi (Q+) and Papias' Exposition. Independence: Each gospel is an independent and original composition based upon oral history.
This gospel begins with a philosophical prologue and ends with appearances of the resurrected Jesus. [31] These four gospels that were eventually included in the New Testament were only a few among many other early Christian gospels. The existence of such texts is even mentioned at the beginning of the Gospel of Luke. [32]
Tatian's most influential work is the Diatessaron, a Biblical paraphrase, or "harmony", of the four gospels that became the standard text of the four gospels in the Syriac-speaking churches until the 5th-century, after which it gave way to the four separate gospels in the Peshitta version.
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 356 parchment leaves (size 26 cm by 18.5 cm). [3] The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page. [3] [4] It is an ornamented manuscript. [2] The text of the Gospels is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given at the margin
Arabic Diatessaron, translated by Abul Faraj al-Tayyib from Syriac to Arabic, 11th century. Tatian's harmony follows the gospels closely in terms of text but, in order to fit all the canonical material in, he created his own narrative sequence, which is different from both the synoptic sequence and John's sequence; and occasionally creates intervening time periods that are found in none of the ...
The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book) containing an almost complete text of the four Gospels on 318 parchment leaves (sized 23 × 16.5 centimetres (9.1 × 6.5 in)). The text is written in one column per page, with 23 or more lines per page in uncial letters.