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Just thinking through this: 1. Marcion claims to have the original Gospel preached by Paul. Creator God of Judaism is not the true God. No attribution to the Gospel other than perhaps 'Paul'. 2. Proto-orthodox then take that Gospel, assign attribution to Luke, a follower of Paul, 1 and then add 'Ju...

Yes I think so. I think Paul was Mark and somehow the name "Marcion" is derived from Mark perhaps owing to it being a diminutive. But hard to prove. Cheers. I have had the Markion = Mark thing in mind for a while. And the idea that Markion priority vs Mark priority might well be a false d...

Could some, much, most or even all the accounts of Paul be accounts about Marcion? or mostly about a Marcionite? The shipping expeditions, etc,? The references to other teachings may be references to subsequent orthodox teachers? Even Peter and James (& John) - who Paul disses - may represent or...

From Jason Beduhn, "Marcion's Gospel and the New Testament: Catalyst or Consequence?", New Testament Studies (March 2017), issue #2, volume 63, pp. 324-329. What then explains this peculiar selection 1 that first Marcion and then his opponents considered Christian scripture? ... 1 to clar...

... Hays provides a very detailed analyses with good examples of Paul's inventive use of the scriptures. imo, Paul seems to be very 'inventive' in his use (and perhaps misuse) of the Hebrew scriptures, as you note with: Paul's creative and generative use of the scriptures WRT - “In Paul we encounte...

Other references to covenant in Paul https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?search=Covenant+&version=NIV&searchtype=all&spanbegin=52&spanend=60 1 Cor 11:25 in context: 23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took ...

nb. https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/ ... intro.html
= 'Introduction to Ignatius of Antioch,' transcribed from Kirsopp Lake's The Apostolic Fathers (1912), v. I, pp.166-9.

For those interested in these topics, there is this reprint of, "The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious": https://depts.drew.edu/jhc/KillenIgnatius.pdf This is in reply to J. B. Lightfoot ... Cheers Peter. That's interesting. I note a letter from William Cureton in the Appendices which i...

Definitely on the Semitic root ( PLT ) for release . Pilate releases Barabbas to freedom. Pilate releases Jesus to be crucified. * Pilate releases the body of Jesus to Joseph of Arimathea. * conceptually / theologically ' releasing ' Him to be glorified [as a sacrifice] * eta And it not need be a s...

Do you have a feel for if the shorter Syriac leters of Ignatius refer to the Pauline Epistles in a way that is above and beyond what could be a reference to Paul-in-Acts? Have a read: https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Antient_Syriac_Version_of_the_Epistl/3UEYAAAAYAAJ?hl=en Thank-you, but ...