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Marcion's Gospel and the New Testament: Catalyst or Consequence?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2017

Judith Lieu*
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge

Abstract

These three short papers were delivered in the ‘Quaestiones disputatae’ session at the 71st General Meeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, held at McGill University, Montreal, on 3 August 2016. The session was chaired by Professor Carl Holladay, President of the Society.

Type
Quaestiones Disputatae
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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Footnotes

*

This is a slightly abridged version of the paper presented in Montréal. For the publication the presentation style was retained; only footnotes and bibliographical references were added.

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30 BeDuhn, The First New Testament, 11–23 in a brief account pays little attention to Marcion's views about God and creation; Klinghardt, Das älteste Evangelium is similarly only interested in the reports about Marcion's textual activities.

31 On what follows see Roth, D. T., The Text of Marcion's Gospel (NTTSD 49; Leiden: Brill, 2015) 4683 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Lieu, Marcion, 183–96.

32 BeDuhn, The First New Testament, recognising these issues, gives only an English translation, allowing for indeterminacy regarding the Greek.

33 Roth, Text, 410–36.

34 Origen, Hom. Luc., fr. 75.

35 Klinghardt, Das älteste Evangelium, ii.725–6, 731–6.

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39 Some non-canonical readings do overlap with key Marcionite passages: Lieu, Marcion, 198, 223 (Luke 8.19–21), 207–8 (Luke 18.18–19).

40 So Vinzent, M., Marcion and the Dating of the Synoptic Gospels (St.Pat.Supplement 2; Leuven: Peeters, 2014) 281 Google Scholar.

41 On what follows see Lieu, Marcion, 226–7, 230–1.

42 Lieu, J. M., ‘Marcion and the Synoptic Problem’, New Studies in the Synoptic Problem (ed. Foster, P., Gregory, A., Kloppenborg, J. S. and Verheyden, J.; BETL 239; Leuven: Peeters, 2011) 731–51, 740–4Google Scholar.

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