New Studies of Marcion’s Evangelion

BeDuhn, Jason David

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“…While the recent discussions are mostly focused on the textual framework of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities and on historical reconstructions of their mutual relationship deducted from fragmentary written evidence (see esp. discussions in the Journal of Ancient Christianity [BeDuhn 2017a;Roth 2017;Schmidt 2017;Klinghardt 2017a;Lieu 2017a] and New Testament Studies [Klinghardt 2017b;BeDuhn 2017b;Lieu 2017b;cf. Roth 2022]), our project tries to reconsider these two movements in a broader context of the spreading dynamics of early Christianity.…”

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Jewish Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity: A Mathematical Model of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities

Papoušek,

Pospíšil

2023

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The authors reconsider the dynamics of Jewish and non-Jewish networks in the spread of early Christianity. For mathematical modeling of complex processes like these, they apply Lukan and Marcionite Christianities as strictly coded test cases. Despite weak historical evidence, it is obvious that these two movements, which are newly assumed to be contemporaneous, maintained different attitudes to the Jewish background of Christianity and so they probably used Jewish and non-Jewish networks in a different way. While Lukan Christianity, which remained open to the Jewish tradition, may still have utilized Jewish Mediterranean networks, Marcionite Christianity, which rejected the Jewish heritage, probably ignored them. On this reduced historical basis, the authors constructed a mathematical model of temporal spreading on the network which was common for both of the hypothesized types of Christianity. The nodes of this network, representing big cities of the ancient Mediterranean, contain only two different kinds of diffusivity -Jewish and non-Jewish. At the level of the common network which remains stable, the model examines the importance of global centers for the spreading dynamics of early Christianity. On the other hand, the employment of the Jewish sub-network is manipulated over time according to the regular alteration of early Christian generations. This way, the necessity of the Jewish sub-network for the spread of early Christianity is tested.

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Jewish Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity: A Mathematical Model of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities

Papoušek,

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2023

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The Anonymous Source for Marcion's Gospel in British Library, Add. 17215: An Identification and Analysis

Forness¹

2021

New Testam. Stud.

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For over a century, studies on Marcion have cited a quotation attributed to him in a fragmentary Syriac manuscript: London, British Library, Add. 17215 (fols. 30–3). An English translation of the relevant passage appeared in 1893, but no subsequent study has returned to the Syriac text itself. While this text has hitherto been cited as an anonymous Syriac source, this article identifies it as a letter by Jacob of Serugh (d. 520/1) and offers preliminary remarks on the implications of this identification for future research on Marcion's Gospel and his thought.

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New Studies of Marcion’s Evangelion

Abstract: Abstract:Several recent publications have brought renewed vigor to the study of Marcion’s gospel text, the

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Jewish Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity: A Mathematical Model of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities

Jewish Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity: A Mathematical Model of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities

The Anonymous Source for Marcion's Gospel in British Library, Add. 17215: An Identification and Analysis

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