P.Dura 10

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Parchment dura 10

The P.Dura 10 (for parchment Dura Europos 10 ; in older literature: P.Dura 24 ) was found on March 5, 1933 during American-French excavations in the Syrian city ​​of Dura Europos and probably dates to the third century AD older research saw in the text part of a Gospel harmony (Diatessaron) by Tatian († approx. 170 AD). In contrast, recent research is more cautious in assigning the document, although assignment to Tatian remains an option. The text aroused research interest early on. The first publication took place in 1935. The fragment can be found today at Yale University . In the cataloging of biblical manuscripts by Caspar René Gregory it has the number 0212.

The Gospel Harmony of Tatian, a compilation of texts from all four Gospels, was mainly used in Syria in the third and fourth centuries AD. It has not been preserved.

The fragment was found in the rubble on the city's western wall, two blocks north of the Dura Europos house church . It is 9.5 × 10.5 cm in size. 15 lines of a Greek text are still preserved. This is the story of the Passion from the New Testament , with the text borrowed from all the Gospels, but not identical to any of them. The text contains remnants of two text units. On the one hand it concerns the description of the witnesses under the cross, on the other hand it concerns the burial of Jesus. The original text should have covered the entire story of the Passion. Since this is never attested on its own in early Christianity, it can be concluded that the original manuscript represented a whole gospel .

The text is a mixture of text passages that can also be found in the Gospels and those that have no equivalent there. It has therefore been assumed that this is a fragment of Tatian's Gospel harmony. However, since no other fragments of Tatian have survived or can be ascribed to him with certainty, this can neither be proven nor refuted. It has also been suggested that the text is the Greek translation of a Syrian text. However, the exact correspondence of some phrases with the Gospels speaks against it.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Mel: Christian House Church and New Testament: The Iconology of the Baptistery by Dura Europos and the Diatessaron Tatians , Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-53394-9 , p. 189
  2. ↑ Jan Joosten: The Dura Parchment and the Diatessaron , in Vigiliae Christianae , Vol. 57, No. 2 (May 2003), pp. 159–175, especially p. 175
  3. ^ Carl H. Kraeling: A Greek Fragment of Tatian's Diatessaron from Dura . Studies and Documents 3, London, 1935, online
  4. ^ Mel: Christian house church , p. 195
  5. ^ Mel: Christian house church , p. 196
  6. ^ Kraeling: A Greek Fragment of Tatians's Diatessaron from Dura , pp. 19-20
  7. ^ George D. Kilpatrick: Dura-Europos: The Parchments and the Papyri , in: Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies (1964), pp. 215-216