Tatian

• ABOUT:
  • Columbia Encyclopedia --- Bartleby
  • 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia: (Read with caution)

  • Wm. L. Petersen: Tatian, (2005). From A Companion to Second-Century "Heresies", edited by Antti Marjanen and Petri Luomanen, (Leiden: Brill, 2005), p. 125. Pro-Tatian; read with caution.

• WORKS: (Read with extreme caution)
  • Address to the Greeks: Styling himself a "barbarian philosopher", the young (Orthodox) Tatian ferociously attacks nearly all aspects of Hellenistic civilization as corrupt or fraudulent. Ryland translation. --- NA
  • Diatessaron: An attempt to combine passages of all four Gospels into a single narrative. This was long the standard New Testament of the Syrian Church, and was used by many Orthodox saints, but was eventually rejected by the Church in favour of the original Gospels. --- NA
  • Fragments: Emphasis is on Tatian's later heresies. READ WITH EXTREME CAUTION. Ryland translation. --- NA