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These verses (Lk 22:42,44) are (certainly?) not in Marcion but are referenced by Justin (Dial 103.8) as being in the memoirs. If the Dialogue is circa 160 I'm not sure this helps much in terms of determining priority between Marcion and Luke, but it at least shows Justin is familiar with Lucan non-...

You are really stuck on monarchist and monotheist. That is not what I said. The simplicity is when you recognize the anti-Marcionite church fathers are from a later era in which the orthodox camp has settled on a monotheist position, and are projecting the multiplicity of Gods upon the heretics as a...

a division [into] two distinct camps, over this very issue of the Jewish God and the unknown supreme God. Is it a divide between two camps allied to one of two gods or is the division more sophisticated. For instance the unquestioned assumption among traditional scholars is that Jews were monotheis...

Apparently the name 'Luke' is a result of hypocorism: The same is true for Saint Luke, whose name is a new coinage formed with the Greek hypocoristic suffix-άς from the the common Latin praenomen Lucius. Good observation. I have wondered about this name, as Lucius was a 2nd generation Marcionite bi...

At best it can be said that in Adversus Marcionem: 1. the most consistent focus of the treatise is to attack the Marcionites for diverging from monarchia through their veneration of another god superior than the Creator 2. the Jews are assumed to have always venerated only one God; the Marcionite i...

2nd century. The part about the ten Kings and having to wait a bit longer pushes the final layer to the reign of Severus.

Your projecting far out of context for the chapter to place it in the 4th century. The proximity of events in this chapter are 1st century.

This is an utterly silly thread that should be deleted. But since I am hitting writers block on an article I am doing and bored, I'll inject a minor bit of seriousness into the understanding of chapter 13 of Revelation. First is "the Mark". In Revelation 13:17 we are told "... no one ...

There is as yet no consensus. Only very recently has the concept of Marcionite Priority actually been examined in depth as a possibility requiring in depth examination of the consequences with regard to the Synoptic and indeed all the Gospel development. Markus Vinzent, King's College London, is som...

Forget Stephen Huller's fixation on Aramaic and Hebrew root words and supposed translations errors into Greek for everything in and near to Christianity. It's his personal cracked theory. Just set it aside, as it' is irrelevant to issue at hand anyway - it would be nice if he admitted it was persona...

The reason I posted the entire block in English was to discuss it in terms of the Marcionite theology. But before I do that a quick comment on the abrupt ending. This seems to be a pattern in the Marcionite collection. As soon as the final point is made, Paul signs out with a form of "Grace be ...