The proof is the following:
- FACT: Mark knew the pauline epistles
- FACT: before Marcion, none knew the epistles of Paul (apart the teacher of Marcion: Cerdon).
- FACT: Marcion made the epistles known in the same moment he made *Ev known.
- CONCLUSION: therefore Mark could know the epistles only after the publication of the Apostolikon + *Ev.
- 1) the hypothesis that Mark didn't know Paul. COUNTER-OBJECTION: Is it even credible?
- 2) the hypothesis that Mark knew the epistles before that Marcion published the epistles + *Ev. COUNTER-OBJECTION: Occam prohibits the gratuitous assumption that there was a collection of paulines preceding the Apostolikon.
Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Tue May 14, 2024 7:55 am