"Preliminary versions of parts of the following book have been presented at conferences or lectures in Oxford, London, Paris and Geneva"--P. ix.

Though fairly distinct among Syriac manuscripts, the nearly twenty exemplars of the so-called Syriac "Masora" remain relatively unknown and often misunderstood.

For a long time the Diatessaron has drawn the interest of modern scholars. Some of the problems related to the Syriac Harmony of the Gospels have been solved. O

(Peeters 1973)