Yet even with these it is difficult to gain avocesanticae wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:32 pm
Can you point me to any scholarly publications that claim that Tertullian was not consulting and quoting from Marcion's Gospel? I honestly have never come across this view in the scholarly literature, even from those who take the most minimalist approach to reconstructing Marcion's Gospel.
confident picture of the development of Tertullian’s direct knowledge of
Marcionite teaching. It is widely agreed that Books IV and V of Against
Marcion were written only for the final version of the work, as a result of
Tertullian having acquired direct access to ‘the actual Scriptures which
Marcion uses’, something that is only in prospect in Book I (AM I. 15.1;
16.2; 29.9). On the other hand, although already in Book I he appealed to
Marcion’s ‘Antitheses’, ‘that is the contradictory oppositions which attempt
to establish the disagreement between Gospel and Law in order to argue
for the difference of Gods from the difference of ideas in each document’
(I. 19.4; cf. IV. 4.3), it is, as shall be seen, far from certain how much he knew
of these, and when.14
- Lieu, Marcion and Making of a Heretic p53