One reason that I haven't already just gone with (1)/(3) is that I'm not sure we have a good catalog of non-Luke that could be in Marcion's gospel. Prior scholarship generally takes the Gospel of Luke as a "map in hand" with which to discover the context of references to Marcion's gospel. That's usually okay for Mark // Matthew // Luke material, but otherwise it has its shortcomings.
Just looking into Ian Mill's Academia.edu page turns up that he thinks he finds a piece of non-Luke Marcion material that is also found in the Longer Ending of Mark:
https://www.academia.edu/25622842/Marci ... s_Handout_
The element is called "disciples disbelieve" (continued disbelief) and is supposedly attested in Adv Marc. 24.33-35 and Pan. 4.43.3-4 and in Mark 16:13b but not in Luke.
Of course throwing the Longer Ending of Mark into the mix expands the set of documents in the 'synoptic problem' here by another one (since it's not Mark). Who knows what the answer to that puzzle is?
But still the question is about the author of Marcion's gospel. What were they doing?
Conservative cut and paste? Or creative rewriting, which could add some new material?
Gospel harmonist? Or synoptic-like author?
Just looking into Ian Mill's Academia.edu page turns up that he thinks he finds a piece of non-Luke Marcion material that is also found in the Longer Ending of Mark:
https://www.academia.edu/25622842/Marci ... s_Handout_
The element is called "disciples disbelieve" (continued disbelief) and is supposedly attested in Adv Marc. 24.33-35 and Pan. 4.43.3-4 and in Mark 16:13b but not in Luke.
Of course throwing the Longer Ending of Mark into the mix expands the set of documents in the 'synoptic problem' here by another one (since it's not Mark). Who knows what the answer to that puzzle is?
But still the question is about the author of Marcion's gospel. What were they doing?
Conservative cut and paste? Or creative rewriting, which could add some new material?
Gospel harmonist? Or synoptic-like author?
Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:36 pm