Gospel of Marcion

Claire Clivaz has argued that Papyrus 69 is "a witness to a Marcionite edition of Luke's Gospel".[1]
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The Gospel of Marcion, called by its adherents the Gospel of the Lord, or more commonly the Gospel, was a text used by the mid-2nd-century Christian teacher Marcion of Sinope to the exclusion of the other gospels. The majority of scholars agree that this gospel was a later revised version of the Gospel of Luke,[2] though several involved arguments for Marcion priority have been put forward in recent years.[3][4][5][6][7]

There are debates as to whether several verses of Marcion's gospel are attested firsthand in a manuscript in Papyrus 69, a hypothesis proposed by Claire Clivaz and put into practice by Jason BeDuhn.[1][3] Thorough, meticulous, yet highly divergent reconstructions of much or all of the content of the Gospel of Marcion have been made by several scholars, including August Hahn (1832),[8] Theodor Zahn (1892), Adolf von Harnack (1921),[9] Kenji Tsutsui (1992), Jason BeDuhn (2013),[3] Dieter T. Roth (2015),[10] Matthias Klinghardt (2015/2020, 2021),[4] and Andrea Nicolotti (2019).[7]

  1. ^ a b Clivaz, Claire (2005). "The Angel and the Sweat Like "Drops of Blood" (Lk 22:43–44):69 and ƒ13". Harvard Theological Review. 98 (4): 419–440. doi:10.1017/S0017816005001045. ISSN 0017-8160.
  2. ^ Bernier, Jonathan (2022). Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament. Baker Academic. ISBN 978-1-4934-3467-1. According to late second- and early third-century fathers, Marcion (who was active in Rome in probably the 140s) produced a version of Luke's Gospel shorn of material that he found to be doctrinally unacceptable. For the most part, critical scholarship has been content to affirm these patristic reports.
  3. ^ a b c BeDuhn, Jason David (2013). The first New Testament: Marcion's scriptural canon. Salem, Oregon: Polebridge Press. ISBN 978-1-59815-131-2.
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Klinghardt 2021 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Vinzent, Markus (2014). Marcion and the dating of the synoptic gospels. Leuven: Peeters. ISBN 978-90-429-3027-8. OCLC 870847884.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Gramaglia 2017 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ a b Marcion of Sinope (2019). Gianotto, Claudio; Nicolotti, Andrea (eds.). Il Vangelo di Marcione. Torino: Einaudi. ISBN 978-88-06-23141-5. OCLC 1105616974.
  8. ^ Thilo, Johann Karl (1832). Codex apocryphus Novi Testamenti. Leipzig: F.C.G. Vogel.
  9. ^ von Harnack, Adolf (1921). Marcion: das Evangelium vom fremden Gott, eine Monographie zur Geschichte der Grundlegung der katholischen Kirche [Marcion: the gospel of the alien God: A monograph on the history of the foundation of the Catholic Church]. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur (1st ed.). Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs.
  10. ^ Roth, Dieter T. (2015-01-08). The text of Marcion's Gospel. New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents. Vol. 49. Leiden: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004282377. ISBN 978-90-04-24520-4.