Peter Kirby wrote:Bertie wrote:The reconstructions vary so little from canonical Luke that most of the standard arguments for Markan Priority will still apply.
That's an interesting point. I would be curious to see anyone develop it, e.g., comparing the existing arguments for Markan priority to Luke and seeing how well they fare using Roth or DeBuhn.
I also wonder what the odd couple of scholars (Vinzent, Klinghardt) have to say here.
It is probably a minor thing, but one possible argument that struck me for Marcan priority vis-à-vis Marcion is the same argument often made for Marcionite priority vis-à-vis Luke. Basically, the Nazareth episode in canonical Luke implies that Jesus has already performed miracles in Capernaum, but Jesus has not even been to Capernaum in canonical Luke by that point. The Marcionite gospel, however, places the exorcism in the Capernaum synagogue before the Nazareth episode, thus offering at least one miracle in Capernaum (the mention of miracles performed there is unattested, however); yet the word is plural, so the tension, while somewhat relieved, is not completely absolved. But Mark postpones the Nazareth episode until several miracles have been performed in Capernaum (while simultaneously, however, lacking any mention of miracles performed there!).
This evidence can be seen as reflecting Marcan priority, followed by the insertion of the mention of miracles into the pericope while it remains in its Marcan order (this is an intermediate stage of the gospel development, not directly evidenced), followed by Marcion moving the pericope forward, followed finally by Luke moving it forward again.
I am pretty convinced that canonical Luke displays an editing issue here, but I am less sure that the above sequence is the only solution.
That can 't be true. 
Impossible. 
Senseless claim. 
