Marcion and Luke Acts
Joseph B Tyson (2006), in 'Marcion and Luke-Acts: a defining struggle', University of South Carolina Press, makes a case for Luke & Acts being written or developed as a response to Marcion, rather than Marcion's gospel being a rewrite of Luke. How can I find the biblical basis for this assertion?
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You can’t find a biblical basis. You will have to find other scholarly work on the two opinions.
Bob
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What Bob said.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Bob said:
You can’t find a biblical basis.
Agree. But the basis of the argument is supplemented in Kirsopp Lake "Many of the Western readings are traceable in the text used by Justin Martyr and by Marcion. In these cases it is obvious that a Greek and not a Latin text was used." He then goes on to discuss the Old Latin.
Just a sample, keeping in mind, the 'Western readings' as a label, has bounced around significantly, since then.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Christian Alexander said:
How can I find the biblical basis for this assertion?
The burden of proof of an assertion belongs with the person making the assertion. If the source you are quoting does not offer (biblical) proof, then I would categorize it as theory/speculation.
I know nothing about your source or the theory. But I do know that Luke chapter 1 and Acts chapter 1 both explain Lukes reasons and methods for composing his gospel.
Many times scholarly people ignore what the scriptures or church fathers tell us, and then create theories of their own.
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You might want to get hold of The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon (not available in Logos, but it's available to borrow from Internet Archive) and compare it with what the author of Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle says.
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Rosie Perera said:
The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon
Thank you, Rosie ... that's appears to be a good book to have. I have Judith Lieu's but it centers on the heretical aspects.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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DMB said:Rosie Perera said:
The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon
Thank you, Rosie ... that's appears to be a good book to have. I have Judith Lieu's but it centers on the heretical aspects.
I've just added a request for it in Logos, which people can vote for here:
The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon
Folks might also want to vote for this, which contains a whole section (12 chapters) on Marcion's canon:
The Pre-Nicene New Testament: Fifty-four Formative Texts by Robert M. Price
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