Joseph D. L. wrote: ↑Sun Sep 16, 2018 4:54 am
Reading over the Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs, there is this rather odd statement made by one of the captive Christians:
Saturninus the proconsul said: What are the things in your chest?
Speratus said: Books and epistles of Paul, a just man.
Now it can be generally agreed upon what is meant by epistles, whether they be of the Marcionites or the Pastoral redactions.
But what of the former inclusion of books? What books of Paul does/could he have? .
If Robert M Price is right about key Pauline texts being written by Marcion or around the time of Marcion (and about [some] being edited by the likes of Polycarp); and if Tyson, Beduhn, Vinzent, and Klinghardt are right about the synoptic gospels -especially urLuke and urMark - beginning with or being 'processed' via Marcion (or his community) then the genesis of most if not all of these key Christian texts would have been contemporary to each other ..
I think someone has proposed or even argued that Paul was Marcion, so, if Marcion, had a gospel ...
