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Chris Hansen wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 2:07 pm It seems "anti-Marcionite" more and more just seems to be a catchphrase for someone wishing to conjecture an emendation in these letters.

Does this apply to mainstream biblical scholarship also?

The passage in Mark looks like a simple hand waving over the longer scene in Matthew. Or the later author(s) could have been inspired by it to create the temptation scene. A similar thing seems to have happened with the Last Supper, which was based upon Paul's allegations but was expanded by later ...

I'm 90% positive that significant portions of Galatians, including these sections of Galatians 4, are all proto-orthodox interpolations. But by when in the proto-Orthodox development? If it were beyond a certain point, I would expect it to include references to the mother's being Mary, even if not ...

We have no reliable way of reconstructing Marcion's claims or texts. So anything he "said" or "collected" is doubtful to say the least. For instance, at one time 1 Thess. 2:14-16 was widely considered an interpolation, but my recent review shows a huge number of text critics (vi...

By this, I mean that when we talk about specific people, we rarely need to specify that they are born of women - unless we are trying to refute claims (perhaps made by aliens?) that they are not born from women. This in turn suggests that Paul, whom I assume was writing the reference, was subtly dea...

IMO, we cannot trust the Church Fathers enough to reconstruct Marcion's text, but then turn around and say we cannot trust their other claims about Marcion. It seems like a "have my cake and eat it too" situation, based largely in an anti-Christian bias. For what it is worth, my anti-Chri...

Finding "anti-Marcionite" and "anti-Gnostic" or "anti-Docetist" interpolations is one of the most subjective and unscientific processes I've seen in this entire field, and I frankly find it also one of the least credible exercises. Like what are the clear and precise m...

Hmmm, that is actually a really interesting suggestion. One thing I've been toying with is that it had to do with discussion in terms of generation, but actually your suggestion makes a bit more sense than that. I'll have to mull that one over. Regardless, the meaning is clear, it is idiomatic for ...

I don't see any good reason to think this letter is inauthentic or has been tampered with. I've read it and numerous other Roman documents of the time, and it seems just in keeping with the rest of Pliny's letters, particularly the rest of Book X. What about the reference to temples' being nearly a...

I doubt the Christian tradition that Domitian himself took an interest in persecuting Christians and put out an effort eradicate them. That said, there probably was persecution of Christians during Domitian's reign. Yeah, I thought that John2 was being too credulous. But do you have any opinion abo...