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Is it possible that Marcion is merely a strawman of the Patristics just as for Ebion? Yes and no. The problem with that opinion is Marcionites do refer to a founder and as one who was a bishop: [box = white] DA 1.9 Megethius (Marcionite says): “Marcion is my bishop” (ἐπισκοπός μου / episcopus meus)...

... edited to remove offensive material and falsehoods. I left the truthful material intact as you can see This is a post that deserves to get you banned. The sheer number of falsehoods and false characterizations of people's positions, as well as the completely unfounded assault on Dr. Detering's ...

Sorry for the delay. I tied up completing the German to English translation of Dr. Detering's "Die gnostische Deutung des Exodus und die Anfänge des Josua/Jesus-Kultes" (The Gnostic Interpretation and Exegesis of Exodus). It's off getting reviewed now --- I have a bonus English only sectio...

We know relatively little about it. But we can make some educated guesses from Tertullian Adversus Marcionem 1 & 2, Dialogue Adamantius parts 1 & 2, Acta Archelai Book XL, and Matthew chapter 5. A secondary source is also the pseudo Clement Recognitions and Homilies (Simon Magus, although cl...

200 CE is an optimistic date for P46. But it doesn't much effect dating anything. Almost all the dates given are the earlier end of the range these documents could be. That should be drilled into people. But for some reason everyone just accepts the earliest possible date, rather than mention the r...

200 CE is an optimistic date for P46. But it doesn't much effect dating anything. Almost all the dates given are the earlier end of the range these documents could be. That should be drilled into people. But for some reason everyone just accepts the earliest possible date, rather than mention the ra...

ALL Biblical texts are pseudepigiphal. ALL of them. No one who is claimed to have written them wrote them and those that were written by historical personages (Paul) had their names changed IMHO. Perhaps there is a core text somewhere lurking in Isaiah or the letters of Paul but the editor(s) is/ar...

A sub-question would be - where there Christians at Pompeii? The answer is simply no. There is absolutely no evidence of any Christians, outside of likely interpolated passages in histories, being anywhere in the 1st century, beyond the Christian tales themselves in their own literature. Archeology...

Great. But the topic belongs in Jewish texts, wrong sub-forum.

What in God's holy name am I blathering about? This statement deserves the the first annual BC&H Vice Admiral James Stockdale Award for self awareness :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :wave: - Dilly Dilly! Now that the academy award is out of the way, I'll address the OP. You actually ask an excellen...