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May 12, 2015 · This post is part of an ongoing series examining Marcion of Sinope's influence on the formation of the New Testament canon. When examining Marcion, one must be careful to note his long and varied history of interpretation.
In accordance with this conspiracy theory, Marcion radically altered the New Testament, not only by limiting it to a small number of texts (the Gospel of Luke and ten Letters of Paul), but above all by cutting out all passages from the remaining texts which show any positive reference to the Old Testament.
After an analysis of Marcion’s philology, seen in both his hermeneutical stance towards the Jewish Scriptures and his editorial work on the New Testament, this chapter concludes by arguing that writers like Tertullian and Epiphanius rejected Marcion’s philosophical conclusions while coming to terms with the validity of the methods of ...
Marcion of Sinope transcribed the first Christian bible in 144 A.D. and is credited by scholars with the creation of New Testament canon. He proved that the deity represented in the Old Testament is different from the Christian God of the New Testament - and for this his books and followers were hunted down and destroyed in a period spanning ...
marcion, gospel of. A native of Sinope in Pontus, Marcion came to Rome c. a.d. 140 and joined the church there but in 144 was excommunicated for his heretical opinions. The sect which he founded spread widely, and was for a time a serious menace to the Church.
In that connection, Marcion has commanded attention on two major topics: the church’s appropriation of the scriptures of Judaism (which it came to call the ‘Old Testament’), and the emergence of a canon of specifically Christian scriptures (a ‘New Testament’).
MARCION(c. 85–c. 159) Marcion was one of the most significant and, in a way, perplexing figures of the second century CE — significant both for founding the Marcionite Church and for providing the stimulus for the formation of the New Testament canon, and perplexing because of the difficulty of classifying him among contemporary thinkers.
