Nonsense.Stephan Huller wrote:the Diatessaron has been discovered at Dura Europos long before Nicaea.
What Mrs. Clark Hopkins "discovered" was a piece of papyrus, upon which appears Greek text, of UNKNOWN origin, initially claimed to represent Tatian's Diatessaron, a view that has, in recent years, been DISCARDED. It is not known, at this point in time, exactly which ancient text, this tiny fragment represents. It is dishonest to assert, contrarily, an interpretation from forty years ago, that has been rejected in recent years.
This papyrus scrap had been "found", conveniently, by a workman, in a bucket of dirt. One notes, as has been previously acknowledged on this forum, that NO OTHER bucket had been examined by the Hopkins' crew, a curious behaviour, given the weight attributed to this fragment of text. According to Hopkins, himself, there would have been no way possible to claim that the "house church" had been of Christian origin, absent that scrap of papyrus.
The utterly preposterous notion, that Dura Europos lay "undisturbed" after the sack of the Roman fortress by the Persian army, in the third century CE, is refuted by numerous studies:
https://isaw.nyu.edu/.../trading-at-the-edge-pottery-...
This link, from New York University, contains the following quote:
Suggestion: less high handedness, and more data, would be useful, in a dialogue.A single coin of the Roman emperor Constantius II also indicates fourth-century or later activity.
Pete asked if either of you have some data to illustrate existence prior to Nicea, I am eager to encounter your links....
The silence here, is deafening. The name calling and vulgarity is just offensive.