The Diatessaron
Arne, Apostle The Diatessaron (c. 160-175) is the most prominent early Gospel harmony, and was created by Tatian, an early Christian Assyrian apologist and ascetic. Tatian sought to combine all the textual material he found in the four gospels-Matthew, Mark Luke, and John-into a single coherent narrative of Jesus's life and death. However, and in contradistinction to most later gospel harmonists, Tatian appears not to have been motivated by any aspiratio...