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Thanks Mac. Good stuff

Even the redoubtable spin has suggested that the historicity of Marcion is something that we "know." What is the basis for this "knowledge" (in inverted commas) other than the deemed "authority" invested in the multiple manuscripts of the "Fathers". Scholarsh...

Even the redoubtable spin has suggested that the historicity of Marcion is something that we "know." What is the basis for this "knowledge" (in inverted commas) other than the deemed "authority" invested in the multiple manuscripts of the "Fathers". Scholarsh...

This reference to "the Preaching of Paul" by pseudo-Cyprian leads to another text for which there is no extant manuscript. The derisive "certain other things of this nature, absurdly and disgracefully concocted, which you will find all congested in that book" is typical of an ort...

Here's a suggested reading of the epigram https://www.jstor.org/stable/20186237 Thanks Mac. This provides (unfortunately the Greek is not preserved below): Third, there is a striking parallelism between the members of both couplets. Both refer to Apollonius' miraculous activities during his lifetim...

When Erasmus released his edition of the collected works of the church father Jerome, he devoted an entire volume to those that he deemed forged and spurious. He used it as an opportunity. He wanted to show that Jerome was hardly the only author to have false works written in his name. And so he tu...

This entire treatise (which reflects --- in part --- the current state of biblical scholarship on Marcion) might therefore answer the question in the OP about the historicity of Marcion (based on the souces cited) by the phrase "Marcion could have easily been historical". Is this satisfac...

Apologies addressed to Roman Emperors: Thanks. I'm also curious about conventions in non-Christian texts. It may be relevant to mention that since Julius Caesar literally bribed his way into the role, all the Roman Emperors until Gratian (later 4th century) assumed the role of "Pontifex Maximu...

The role played by Bardaisan, Marcion and Manichaeism in the religious history of Edessa 12th November 2004 by Peter Eyland https://www.insula.com.au/ahrel/bardaisan.html /// Marcion The Beginning of the Marcionites Hoffmann (1984:74) has Marcion actively teaching between 110 and 150 CE. [4] The ar...

It's very similar to the statement "extinguished the sins" of men. I haven't checked the Greek.