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I have just found this: Sebastian Moll's 2009 PhD dissertation - At the Left Hand of Christ: The Arch-Heretic Marcion by Sebastian Moll Marcion is unanimously acknowledged to be one of the most important and most intriguing figures of the Early Church. In spite of this importance, there is no compre...

It's interesting that Roth is still saying " ... if we are going to debate the place of Marcion’s Gospel in early Christianity, we must first debate the reconstruction of Marcion’s Gospel] " March, 2015 - https://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/roth-on-vinzent-on-marcion/ and Roth ha...

There's a recent-Marcion bibliography in this post - http://www.earlywritings.com/forum/view ... 180#p38180

Please post other recommended recent works to the thread and I'll add them to the post.

Having flicked through parts of Lau's book that are available online at Google Books , and having had a look at the 1st Chapter of Roth's PhD dissertation (and a few other parts), I'd highly recommend Roth (especially that 1st 'literature review' chapter). Roth thoroughly reviews everything! written...

The latest book on Marcion. I've not read it - very expensive....£70 hardcover or £66.50 Kindle edition. Judith M. Lieu ' Marcion and the Making of a Heretic: God and Scripture in the Second Century ' – 26 Mar 2015 One can flick through about 20-30% on Google books already. There's been a few books...

The task is and always will be to figure out Marcionism beyond the usual retarded discussions of 'whether Luke or the gospel of Marcion was original.' In other words, treat the Marcionites as a 'tribe' a living cultural relic ... Get into their culture, piece together where they came from, where th...

The task is and always will be to figure out Marcionism beyond the usual retarded discussions of 'whether Luke or the gospel of Marcion was original.' In other words, treat the Marcionites as a 'tribe' a living cultural relic ... Get into their culture, piece together where they came from, where th...

Clive wrote:Isn't the place very well established? Only where the Ark of the Covenant was! Jerusalem! A fabled city on a hill, with a new Jerusalem!

David, from 2 Samuel 1-5 (?)

In the quote, "this complex" simply refers back the phrase, "such a complex of traditions as we have in the gospels and their sources." Doh; of course. Cheers, Peter. I wonder if there is an M, N, O, P before or with Q, and possibly Q 1 , Q 2 , Q 3 , etc. As well as maybe Rs, Ss...

What I like very much about the hypothesis of (very genial ) Roger Parvus (but totally beyond his speculation about Isaiah, Simon Magus, etc.) is the crucifixion of the mythological Jesus as a mock Zealot (in the original myth). Somehow, dying as an apparent - and only apparent - Zealot, Jesus cruc...