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[Marcion] opposed allegorical reading of the scriptures, which was the main distinguishing feature where he stood out from Basilides and Valentinus. What scriptures are you referring to here? to Hebrew scriptures? Pentateuch? Tanakh? Mostly Genesis?, or to Christian scriptures? And related: For oth...

I think the gospeltext that Marcion had was used & expanded by Luke, ie. the Marcionite gospeltext was a 'proto-Luke.' I think a proto-Mark developed in the Marcionite community (or 'adjacent' to it) and was used to develop a proto-Matthew (and either that first edition of Matthew or subsequent ...

Added more text after Peter's highlights to tease this out: Clement of Alexandria writes ( Stromateis 2.7-8): To these, then, and certain others, especially the Marcionites , the Scripture cries, though they listen not, “He that heareth me shall rest with confidence in peace, and shall be tranquil, ...

Now the apostle, whom they do not comprehend I'm interested to know who the apostle is. From https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/clement-stromata-book2.html For how ever could the soul admit the transcendental contemplation of such themes, while unbelief respecting what was to be learned st...

Josephus Antiquities 18 . 109 -18: . [109] Meanwhile there was a quarrel between Aretas the king of Arabia Petrea and Herod, for this reason: Herod the tetrarch had married the daughter of Aretas and had been with her a long time. Once, however, when he was in Rome he lodged with his half-brother He...

Also in Photius, Bibliotheca fol. 238 - before, "James, the brother of the Lord" - is, Agrippa the Great, reigned over the Jews, says Josephus, by filling them with his favours. It was to please them, apparently , that he killed with the sword James the brother of John , and that he tried...

So, I have been conducting some research on the James 20.200 passage (which I am working on a paper about arguing it is inauthentic). One thing I decided to do (because I can't find anyone else who has done it) is trace all the different iterations of the "brother of Jesus, called Christ"...

τοῦ λεγομένου Χριστοῦ in the extant Ant . 20.200 is in Matthew 27:17 and 22 : as τὸν λεγόμενον Χριστόν (both in the mouth of Pilate ; see footnote 43 below) Matthew 1:16 : as ὁ λεγόμενος Χριστός 1 John 4:25 : also as ὁ λεγόμενος Χριστός 1 which, in footnote 39, List notes is . a passage about Jesus...

Though, I think the mention of Jesus ben Damneus in Ant . 20.203 could well have prompted a scribe (or outright forger) to think of introducing a or the Jesus into Ant . 20.200. Just to acknowledge that I did read this. I just don't find it provides a sufficient or comparable probability for a marg...

τοῦ λεγομένου Χριστοῦ in the extant Ant . 20.200 is in Matthew 27:17 and 22 : as τὸν λεγόμενον Χριστόν (both in the mouth of Pilate ; see footnote 43 below) Matthew 1:16 : as ὁ λεγόμενος Χριστός 1 John 4:25 : also as ὁ λεγόμενος Χριστός 1 which, in footnote 39, List notes is . a passage about Jesus...