Marcion versus Mark: who is the first?
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2016 10:56 am
In this thread I would list all the more strong arguments supporting the priority of Marcion's Gospel (Mcn) over Mark:
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So Robert M Price:
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So Neil in his review of Dykstra:
http://vridar.org/category/book-reviews ... r-of-paul/
When Mark writes:
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Mark's incipit starts soon with John the Baptist to link Jesus's gospel with the scriptures. Mark fails to tell us why all that suspect emphasis on fulfillment of scriptures. Marcion tells us. He was rejecting any link with the Jewish scriptures and Mark didn't like it.
I will continue...
1)
So Robert M Price:
(The Christ Myth Theory and Its Problems, p. 382-383, my bold)Mark‟s gospel, for instance, holds what can hardly be called
other than a Marcionite view of the buffoonish twelve disciples and
a Gnostic view of secret teaching which, despite their privileged position,
the twelve simply do not grasp. Or think of the Transfiguration
(Mark 9:1-8)*: how can one miss the Marcionite implications of
Mark‟s setting up Jesus, Moses (the Torah), and Elijah (the Prophets)
as in a police line-up, followed by the Father‟s urging that, of the
three, Jesus alone is to be heard and heeded? And Mark, of course, refers
to Jesus giving his life a ransom for many (Mark 10:45). Though
Mark fails to tell us to whom Jesus would be paying this ransom,
Marcion tells us. He paid it to the Creator, and no non-Marcionite
theologian has produced a better candidate.
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So Neil in his review of Dykstra:
(my bold)Dykstra introduces his argument by pointing out how curiously uninterested the author of the Gospel of Mark is in the contents of Jesus’ teachings. Jesus is said to teach with authority and crowds are said to be impressed with his teachings but exactly what he taught in the synagogues or to those who crowded around to hear him in a house is left unsaid. Jesus does teach a lot of parables warning hearers of the consequences of not believing the gospel but the content of that gospel, the detail of what they must believe, is never stated. About the only teaching Mark’s Jesus is said to have delivered is little more than “Keep the commandments”.
http://vridar.org/category/book-reviews ... r-of-paul/
When Mark writes:
Though Mark fails to tell us to why the teaching of Jesus was amazing and surprising (=unexpected, =unlikely). Marcion tells us. Jesus's marcionite teaching was amazing because it was about a new stranger God, and no non-Marcionite theologian has produced a better candidate.The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law.
(Mark 1:22)
3)
Mark's incipit starts soon with John the Baptist to link Jesus's gospel with the scriptures. Mark fails to tell us why all that suspect emphasis on fulfillment of scriptures. Marcion tells us. He was rejecting any link with the Jewish scriptures and Mark didn't like it.
I will continue...