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186 Notes to Chapter 96, 1980, pp. 189–196; William L. Petersen, “Tatian,” in TRE 32, 2001, pp.655–659.105. See Ernst Bammel, “Ex illa itaque die consilium fecerunt ...,” in idem,The Trial of Jesus, p. 17. On Tatian’s harmonizing strategy in general, see HelmutMerkel, Die Widersprüche zwischen den Evangelien. Ihre polemische und apologetischeBehandlung in der Alten Kirche bis zu Augustin, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr(Paul Siebeck), 1971, pp. 71–91; William L. Petersen, Tatian’s Diatessaron: ItsCreation, Dissemination, Significance, and History in Scholarship, Leiden andNew York: Brill, 1994.106. See the list in Wünsch, “Evangelienharmonie,” p. 628. A translation ofthe Arabic version by Hope W. Hogg can be found in The Ante-Nicene Fathers:Translations of the Fathers down to A.D. 325, 5th ed., vol. 10, ed. Allan Menzies;reprint, Edinburgh: T&T Clark; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1990, pp.43–129.107. The references listed here refer only to allusions to the New Testamentdirectly relating to Jesus; it goes without saying that they do not exhaust allusionsto the New Testament in the rabbinic literature in general and in the Bavli inparticular. It is striking, however, that they too seem to be more prominent in theBavli (the most conspicuous example is the reference to Mt. 5:14–17 in the storyof Imma Shalom, Rabban Gamliel, and the pagan philosopher in b Shabb116a–b; see on this Visotzky, Fathers of the World, pp. 81–83).108. However, Martin Hengel reminds me that we should not forget the possibilityof a Hebrew or Aramaic Jewish-Christian Gospel, “akin to the later GreekMatthew”: see his The Four Gospels and the One Gospel of Jesus Christ: An Investigationof the Collection and Origin of the Canonical Gospels, London: SCM,2000, pp. 73–76.109. See the broad discussion in Martin Hengel, Die Johanneische Frage. EinLösungsversuch, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1993, pp. 219ff.;Charles E. Hill, The Johannine Corpus in the Early Church, Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress, 2004. An extremely early date (68/69 C.E.) has been advocated, notconvincingly, by Klaus Berger, Im Anfang war Johannes. Datierung und Theologiedes vierten Evangeliums, Stuttgart: Quell, 1997.110. See also 3:35f.111. See also 6:27.112. Rev. 2:9; 3:9.113. John 9:22, 34; 12:42; 16:2.