Tatian of Adiabene, or Tatian the Assyrian (/ˈteɪʃən, -iən/; Latin: Tatianus; Ancient Greek: Τατιανός; Syriac: ܛܛܝܢܘܣ c. 120 – c. 180 AD) was an Assyrian early Christian writer and theologian of the 2nd century.
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.
Concerning the date and place of his birth, little is known beyond what Tatian tells about himself in his Oratio ad Graecos, chap. xlii (Ante-Nicene Fathers, ii. 81–82): that he was born in “the land of the Assyrians” scholarly consensus is that he died c. 185 AD, perhaps in Adiabene.
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