Several authors has said they think that at least one of the synoptic gospels is a reaction to Marcion’s theology or texts – Tyson (2006) Marcion and Luke-Acts: a defining struggle Knox, J (1942) Marcion and the New Testment, Ams Pr Inc Charles B Waite (1881) History of the Christian Religion to the Year Two-Hundred…

The First New Testament by Jason BeDuhn:“In short, the acceptance by modern researchers of the claims made about Marcion’s handling of the texts included in his New Testament is an example of uncritical adoption of polemic as history. First, Tertullian and his associates in this charge against Marcion are working from an anti-Marcionite bias that…

According to Sebastian Moll’s The Arch-Heretic Marcion (Mohr Siebeck 2010, pp. 26-41), the one more or less reliable date we have is that Marcion came to and settled in Rome 144/5 AD. Allowing for the possibility that he wrote his Gospels in the next few years, or perhaps in the few years prior, it seems…

Tertullian:Every opinion and the whole scheme of the impious and sacrilegious Marcion we now bring to the test of that very Gospel which, by his process of interpolation, he has made his own. To encourage a belief of this Gospel he has actually devised for it a sort of dower, in a work composed of…

Few scholars who believe in Marcion priority: Christopher Hays, “Marcion vs. Luke: A Response to the Plädoyer of Matthias Klinghardt”, Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und Kunde der Älteren Kirche. 99 (2): 213–232. Moll, Sebastian (2010). The Arch-Heretic Marcion. Mohr Siebeck. pp. 90–102. Dieter Roth, “Marcion’s Gospel and the History of Early Christianity: The Devil…

In ‘Justin Against Marcion’ (Fortress, 2017) Andrew Hayes notes, “The relationship of Marcion and the canon is not something Justin (Marcion’s contemporary) discusses.” In Justin’s First Apology, I.26, (155 CE) he says Marcion is “teaching his disciples to believe in some other god greater than the Creator. And he, by the aid of devils has…

Does canonical Luke either descends from Marcion’s Evangelion (the Schwegler Hypothesis)?Jason BeDuhn argues for this in his The First New Testament: Marcion’s Scriptural Canon-The Evangelion contains only one third of the “minor agreements” between Matthew and Luke. These are usually taken to be one of the biggest hurdles that the two-source hypothesis faces, (p.93). The…

MARCION was a rich shipowner of Sinope, the chief port of Pontus, on the southern shore of the Black Sea; he was also a bishop and the son of a bishop. His chief activity at Rome may be placed somewhere between the years 150 and 160. At first he was in communion with the church…

MARCION’S ATTEMPT TO SET ASIDE THE OLD TESTAMENT FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIANITY, TO PURIFY TRADITION, AND TO REFORM CHRISTENDOM ON THE BASIS OF THE PAULINE GOSPEL. MARCION cannot be numbered among the Gnostics in the strict sense of the word.1 [Editorial note: More recent scholarship generally disagrees with Von Harnack’s opinion here about the Gnostic nature…

ANTITHESIS Contradictions Between the Old Testament Diety and the New Testament God.O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and Contradictions [antithesis] of gnosis falsley so called. from the pseudo-Pauline epistle of I Timothy 6:20 (circ.150 C.E.). This page represents a short exercise on my part (rather loose…