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"For Marcion said, ‘Our Lord was not born from a woman but rather stole the place of the maker, came down, and appeared first between Jerusalem and Jericho as a human being through a pretence, through illusions and in a likeness, for he did not have a body.’ Well this says nothing about a Marc...

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RGP— I’m having a hard time following your reasons for the interpretation you propose. I hope the following comments can serve as constructive criticism. Despite all manner of claims about other Gospels being the first, I'm increasingly convinced that Mark, or rather proto-Mark, was the first. Most ...

What exactly is meant by inter-subjective standards? My shorter OED definition of “intersubjective”: “shared by more than one conscious mind.” I really just mean norms, standards, principles, etc. that can be explained and justified in a shared inquiry. Standards of judgment that aren’t arbitrary a...

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Earl Fontainelle dropped an episode on the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies and Recongitions, for his awesomely comprehensive podcast The Secret History of Western Esoterica . The description and bibliography from the website : In this episode, the final one in our longish series on matters Abrahamic goin...

Bilby participated in the forum back in 2020, as some may recall. This was his first post: Saw a lot of web traffic to my blog coming from this thread, so here I am. Happy to verify my identity in any number of ways, including by writing in the next update/upload to my Gospel of the Poor book or my ...

It goes without saying that all conservative and liberal (i.e. conventional) interpreters of Galatians will balk at this interpretation-- The capital assertion of the apostle in the opening of Galatians is that his (the apostle's) true Gospel was vouchsafed to him (the apostle) not kata anthropon , ...

Tertullian makes the following argument, from Book 1 and Book 4 of his "Against Marcion": 1. Marcion had written a letter where he apparently admits that he followed the orthodox faith. From this Tertullian concludes Marcion's heretic views came after Marcion had accepted orthodoxy. 2. &q...

The OP will mostly only make sense for people who have read and absorbed BeDuhn's book, especially pp. 78-92. The value of focusing on the work of the Marcion scholars is that (a) these people have a more erudite command of the ancient material than most of us do, and (b) we can hammer out our own i...