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Yes. Tertullian repeatedly claims, explicitly and implicitly, to have Marcion's scriptures, including "Marcion's own gospel" / ipsum... Marcionis evangelium, AM 3.17.5) at his disposal. He wrote a massive commentary on both the Evangelium and Apostolos--the first commentaries on any Christ...

I am not an expert on Marcion, so feel free to dismiss my current opinions. I did thank those who openly posted Marcion text proposals; no regrets in this case; that does not necessarily mean that I think the "reconstructions" are good, bad, or "close but no cigar." Why isn't Te...

Patristic citations are just as important a data source as manuscript witnesses for text criticism. A close investigation of most NT manuscript variants and their patristic reception history shows that. [...] Data scientists routinely work on classification problems. How should data scientists clas...

In his published Concordance and the footnotes of his forthcoming edition, Vinzent works through the terms in Phil 2.9-11 and details their occurrences in pre-canonical and canonical texts. After summarizing the lexical data, he concludes, "Der Vergleich der Lexeme weist einige vorkanonisch bez...

To summarize: 1. Tertullian clearly states that Marcion's Apostolos 2Thes lacked a phrase. 2. Tertullian quotes the canonical version of 2Thes to show the presence of said phrase, and what he perceives to be its necessity in context. 3. Irenaeus doesn't mention this verse in Marcion's text at all. 4...

So you see the way the original argument in Tertullian is "helped" by these pro-"Tertullian had the Marcionite canon." The original argument comes from Irenaeus. No one doubts that. But why would Tertullian need to borrow from Irenaeus if he had the canon? No one thinks. No one ...

A rough expected distribution ratio for commonplace features in M.Paul to C.Paul should be around 1:4. One way to find potentially significant divergences is to identify frequency ratios outside of this norm. In the tables below, data point counts are given first, followed by a vertical line ... Co...

So to repeat. 1. Irenaeus is the one who "reports" about the "falsification of punctuation" by the Marcionites of the Gospel of Luke. How do we know the statement was made in relation to the Gospel of Luke rather than the Gospel of Marcion? (a) "wherefore also Marcion and h...

Why don't you ask him "what is the probability that any one of these proposed reconstructions of the Marcionite gospel or the Marcionite Apostle is accurate?" If he gives you an answer approaching15 - 25% he's exaggerating. 50% or higher he's absolutely deluded. In the real world all of u...

So clearly Tertullian had a copy of Irenaeus's lost Against Marcion the book which he describes his methodology as "wherefore also Marcion and his followers have betaken themselves to mutilating the Scriptures, not acknowledging some books at all; and, curtailing the Gospel according to Luke a...