Endnote 4 - Earliest Depictions of the Virgin Mary
The Syriac title was Ewangeliyôn Damhalltê (Mixed Gospel). Scholars cannot determine whether the “original” Diatessaron was composed in Greek or Syriac. The fragment from Dura is Greek.
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Endnote 3 - Earliest Depictions of the Virgin Mary
For the Adelphia Sarcophagus (Paolo Orsi Regional Archaeological Museum, Syracuse, Sicily), see www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/museopaoloorsi/museo/sarcofagodiadelfiaENG.htm.
Endnote 2 - Earliest Depictions of the Virgin Mary
Michael Peppard, The World’s Oldest Church: Bible, Art, and Ritual at Dura-Europos, Syria (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2016).
Endnote 1 - Earliest Depictions of the Virgin Mary
Lawrence Schiffman, a well-known Qumran and Jewish Studies scholar, recently alluded to this “gap” in explaining why the fields of Christianity and New Testament studies are “essential for the study of ancient Judaism …[E]arly Christian writings have enormous amounts of information for Jewish historical research. Much of what we know, for example, about Jews in Asia Minor and the Greek Isles in the first century C.E.
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