Sinouhe wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 5:38 am
If someone were to go through the entire text of Marcion in detail, he would certainly find many more.
This is problematic in my opinion for the theory that Mark added allusions to the OT to contradict Marcion.
Like you, I"ve long held the same objection, but I'm beginning to think I've only had half the story.
On a second reading of Marcion's gospel a good number of those allusions become far harder to grasp if we try to avoid reading Marcion through what we know of the Gospel of Mark. It's the same question that arises when we read Paul through the canonical gospels. Take those out and we have a very different view of what Paul was saying. If we read Paul looking for gospel allusions we will find many more than if we read Paul for what he himself says and in the broader context of ideas of the time. The motifs that we tend to default to a source in Jewish Scriptures are as easily borrowed from other Jewish (e.g. Philo) and non-Jewish writings of the day, and that includes the metaphor of crucifixion.
At the same time, though, there are clear references to the Jewish Scriptures in Marcion's gospel. It's a question I am still exploring, but I am influenced in my current approach in particular by Birger Pearson's discussion of gnostic origins. If Marcion was part of the "movement" (I use the term loosely) that was rejecting the Jewish god and his writings, then, like those early seeds of gnosticism, the work of Marcion, too, takes motifs from Jewish scriptures but does so in a way to turn them against the Jewish god.
Gnosticism traces its roots back to exegetes who quoted Jewish scriptures not to endorse them by means of allegorical reinterpretation but to take them literally and to advertise the moral superiority of the higher God.
The reaction of the canonical authors to Marcion was not to introduce and replace Marcion's gospel by the introduction of a Jewish Scripture midrash etc, but to claim the story in a way that reclaimed the Jewish Scriptures as a "prophetic foundation" for their faith. Marcion appears to have used the Scriptures to draw attention to the superiority of the god of Jesus.