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p365 According to his opponents, Marcion similarly resisted any allegorical interpretation. However, this claim cannot simply be taken at face value, for it is a routine polemical charge against someone who interprets differently. Justin asserts that the Jewish teachers take verses such as Psalm 8.4...

p356 Certainly Marcion identified the Law laid down by the Demiurge with the Law as it was articulated in the Scriptures. The character of that Law and the character of the Demiurge are inseparable from each other, and as shall be seen, the contradictions of the Law expose the inconsistency and even...

Earlier in the book she is highly skeptical of any reconstructions of Marcion's text and basically concludes that Tertullian and others didn't actually have any Marcionite texts in front of them when writing.

pp345-6 Philo uses a variety of terms to express the two modes of divine action: goodness, and graciousness, on the one side, and authority, law-giving, and even retribution, on the other. Yet there does seem to be a firm connection between his ideas and the more consistent rabbinic tradition which ...

This reminded me of the Bartimaeus healing in Mark and the way he throws away his (philospher's?) cloak to follow Jesus and regain his sight. For many, the most troubling aspect of the question of human responsibility was that of the origin of their capacity for the wrong choices. Again, Plato’s Tim...

pp340-1 Other evidence suggests a similar complex network of exegesis and tradition, while excluding simple lines of dependency. Marcion’s complaint that the Demiurge was jealous was part of a catalogue of other charges: Tertullian initially states that Marcion was preoccupied by the problem of evil...

I was just reading Lieu's new book Marcion and the Making of a Heretic and came across this p335 he concludes that it was appropriate for God to use assistants in creating a being capable of evil choices for which God could not be responsible (Philo, De Provid. I ¼ Eusebius, PE VII. 21; De Opif. 24 ...

MacDonald talks about this in Two Shipwrecked Gospels where he compares the two versions with another variant by Papias. pp30-31 The New Testament contains two incompatible accounts of the death of Judas; Papias surely knew the account in Matt 27:3–10 but not the one in Acts 1:16– 20.52 Most studies...

11Prescribe and teach these things. 12Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe. 13Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation and teaching.… If we accept that t...

While it's not his text of Marcion's gospel, Roth's dissertation is online https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/ ... sequence=1