This beautifully illustrated book of days contains some of the finest artwork from the Chester Beatty Library's collection. Featuring 56 carefully reproduced works in a week-to-view format, it highlig
This is the first English translation of the commentary by fourth century A.D. theologian Ephrem the Syrian on theDiatessaron--a Gospel woven from the text of the four Gospels, which predates our earliest evidence of the official Syriac translation of the New Testament. The translation fills a gap in scholarship and will be appreciated by patristics and biblical scholars, hagiographers, and historians of Christianity.