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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
Judith Lieu*
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University of Cambridge
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jml68@cam.ac.uk
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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.

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Quaestiones Disputatae
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New Testament Studies , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , April 2017 , pp. 329 - 334
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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Footnotes

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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.

References

29 Baur, F. C., Untersuchungen über die kanonischen Evangelien, ihr Verhältnis zu einander, ihren Charakter und Ursprung (Tübingen: Fuer, 1847) 425 Google Scholar.

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) 46–83 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.

36 The discussion of Marcion's Pauline text by Schmid, U., Marcion und sein Apostolos (ANT; Berlin: de Gruyter, 1996) 270–81Google Scholar demonstrates the complexity of the issue while acknowledging the antiquity of Marcion's text.

37 Parker, D. C., The Living Text of the Gospels (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) 172 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

38 See Baarda, T., ‘ΔΙΑΦΩΝΙΑ – ΣΥΜΦΩΝΙΑ: Factors in the Harmonization of the Gospels, Especially in the Diatessaron of Tatian’, Gospel Traditions in the Second Century: Origins, Recensions, Text and Transmisson (ed. Petersen, W. L.; Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1989) 133–54Google Scholar.

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.

43 Klinghardt, Das älteste Evangelium, 346–7; Vinzent, Marcion, 281. See above, n. 17.