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Tatian
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Tatian of Adiabene, or Tatian the Syrian or Tatian the Assyrian, (; ; ; ; – ) was an Assyrian Christian writer and theologian of the 2nd century.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- ca. 120
- Died
- 173
- Works
- 20
Top works
- Rede an die griechen übersetzt und eingeleitet
- Tatian's Diatessaron
- [Ioustinou tou Philosophou kai martyros episolē proōs Diognēton, kai logos prōs Ellōas]
- Tatiani Alexandrini harmoniae evangelicae antiquissima versio theotisca ut & Isidori Hispalensis ad Florentinam sororem De nativitate Domini
- Het leven van Jesus, naar het Middellimburgsche handschrift van Sint Truyen uit de 14. eeuw
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- Listeners
- 15
- Total plays
- 309
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5 total works indexed
- Fitting refractive-index data with the Sellmeier dispersion formula
· 1984 · cited 325x
- Indole Alkaloids from the Tunicate <i>Aplidium</i> <i>m</i><i>eridianum</i>
· 1998 · cited 177x
- The impact of neighbors who use section 8 certificates on property values
· 1999 · cited 121x
- Targeting Investments for Neighborhood Revitalization
· 2006 · cited 89x
- Assessing the property value impacts of the dispersed subsidy housing program in Denver
· 2001 · cited 59x
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Quotes
- “Be not, O Greeks, so very hostilely disposed towards the Barbarians. To the Babylonians you owe astronomy; to the Persians, magic; to the Egyptians, geometry; to the Phoeicians, instruction by alphabetic writing. Cease, then, to miscall these imitations inventions of your own. Orpheus, again, taught you poetry and song; from him, too, you learned the mysteries.”
- “What noble thing have you produced by your pursuit of philosophy? Who of your most eminent men has been free from vain boasting? Diogenes, who made such a parade of his independence with his tub, was seized with a bowel complaint through eating a raw polypus, and so lost his life by gluttony. Aristippus, walking about in a purple robe, led a profligate life, in accordance with his professed opinions. Plato, a philosopher, was sold by Dionysius for his gormandizing propensities.”
- “The power of the Logos, having in itself a faculty to foresee future events, not as fated, but as taking place by the choice of free agents, foretold from time to time the issues of things to come; it also became a forbidder of wickedness by means of prohibitions, and the encomiast of those who remained good.”
- “My soul being taught of God, I discerned that the former class of writings lead to condemnation, but that these put an end to the slavery that is in the world, and rescue us from a multiplicity of rulers and ten thousand tyrants, while they give us, not indeed what we had not before received, but what we had received but were pre vented by error from retaining.”
- “Of the Egyptians also there are accurate chronicles. Ptolemy, not the king, but a priest of Mendes, is the inter preter of their affairs. This writer, narrating the acts of the kings, says that the departure of the Jews from Egypt to the places whither they went occurred in the time of king Amosis, under the leadership of Moses.”
- “But, that we may complete what is still wanting, I will give my explanation respecting the men who are esteemed wise. Minos, who has been thought to excel in every kind of wisdom, and mental acuteness, and legislative capacity, lived in the time of Lynceus, who reigned after Danaus in the eleventh generation after Inachus. Lycurgus, who was born long after the taking of Troy, gave laws to the Lacedemonians.”
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- date of birth
- 0120-01-01
- date of death
- 0173-00-00
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- Tatian
- name in native language
- ܛܛܝܢܘܣ
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Tatian of Adiabene, or Tatian the Syrian or Tatian the Assyrian, (; ; ; ; – ) was an Assyrian 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. He was controversial in his own age due to his Gnostic influences, leading Russell to state Tatian "lived in the border between ortodox and Gnostic theology".