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Marcion: Gospel of the Lord and Other Writings
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Archive Notes:
The following materials offer excellent introduction to Marcion and his writings:
- An Overview of Marcion -- From G.R.S. Mead, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
- Marcion -- From Adolf von Harnack, History of Dogma (1901).
- Sinope: Some Thoughts Concerning Marcion's Geographical World
-- An essay by David Anderson.
- Antithesis or "Contradictions" between the Old Testament Deity and the New Testament God -- an essay by Daniel Mahar.
We express our gratitude to Daniel Mahar and the The Center for Marcionite Research who have collected, edited and contributed to the Archive the fine collection of materials found in this section.
The Gospel of the Lord
The entirety of The Gospel of the Lord by Marcion is presented below, as reconstructed from extant sources. The text is divided into 6 sections, each referenced to parallel chapters in the Gospel of Luke.
The text is based on "The Gospel of the Lord" by James Hamlyn Hill (1891), which made use of the 1823 reconstruction by August Hahn. This current version is further revised by Daniel Mahar to reflect the reconstruction done by Theodor Zahn ("Geschichte des n.t. Kanons", vol.II., 1888), which places in doubt some of the material Hahn and Hill allowed into their versions.
For reference, the the text presented here is hyperlinked to the two major (and hostile) patristic sources utilized in its reconstruction: Tertullian, Against Marcion (Adversus Marcionem) Book IV; and Ephiphanius, Panarion, Section 42, "Against the Marcionites" (Dindorfus' Greek edition of Ephiphanius is included here along with a few other notes in English).
- Section I (Luke 3:1-7:50)
- Section II (Luke 8:1-10:24)
- Section III (Luke 10:25-13:17)
- Section IV (Luke 13:18-17:37)
- Section V (Luke 18:1-21:38)
- Section VI (Luke 22:1-24:47)
Other Writings by Marcion
- Marcion: To the Galatians
(From the 1887 reconstruction of Marcion's text, by C.W. Van Manen)Patristic Writings Against Marcion
- Tertullian:
- Against Marcion, Book 1
- Against Marcion, Book 2
- Against Marcion, Book 3
- Against Marcion, Book 4 (the principal book dealing with Marcion's Gospel)
- Against Marcion, Book 5