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Marcion (d. c.160)


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Primary Sources

Book or monograph Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 3.3-4.
Book or monograph Epiphanius, Panarion 42.
Book or monograph Eusebius, Church History 4.11, 29.
Book or monograph Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.27; 4.8, 34.
On-line Resource Marcion: Gospel of the Lord and Other Writings (The Gnostic Society Library)View in PDF format pdf
Book or monograph Origen, Against Celsus 6.53.
Book or monograph Tertullian, Prescription Against Heretics 30-44.

Secondary Sources

On-line Resource Marcionites (J.P. Arendzen)
Article in Journal or Book Tjitze Baarda, "Lk 12,13-14. Text and Transmission from Marcion to Augustine," Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity 12/1 (1975): 107-162.
Article in Journal or Book Tjitze Baarda, "Marcions text of Gal. 1,1. Concerning the Reconstruction of the first verse of the Marcionite Corpus Paulinum," Vigiliae christianae 42 (1988): 236-256.
Article in Journal or Book D. Balás, "Marcion Revisited: A 'Post-Harnack' Perspective," W.E. March, ed. Texts and Testament: Critical Essays on the Bible and Early Church Fathers. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1980. pp.95-108.
Book or monograph Johan Chistiaan Beker, "The Christologies and anthropologies of Paul, Luke-Acts and Marcion," Martinus C. De Boer, ed., From Jesus to John: Essays on the New Testament Christology in Honour of Marinus de Jonge. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement 84. Sheffield, 1993. 174-182.
Book or monograph Edwin Cyril Blackman, Marcion and His Influence. London / New York: SPCK, 1948 / AMS Press, 1977. Hbk. ISBN: 0404161030.
Article in Journal or Book David Bundy, "Marcion and the Marcionites in early Syraic apologetics," Muséon 101 (1988): 21-32.
Article in Journal or Book David Bundy, "The Anti-Marcionite Commentary on the Lucan Parables (Pseudo-Ephrem A)," Muséon 103 (1990): 111-123.
On-line Resource Francis Crawford Burkitt [1864-1935], The Religion of the ManicheesFrancis Crawford Burkitt [1864-1935], The Religion of the Manichees. Donnellan Lectures for 1924. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1924. Hbk. pp.130. View in PDF format pdf [This material is in the Public Domain]
Article in Journal or Book Francis Crawford Burkitt, "The Exordium of Marcion's Antitheses," Journal of Theological Studies 30 (1929): 279f.
Book or monograph F.L. Cross, The Early Christian Fathers. Studies in Theology 1. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1960. Hbk. pp.40-41, 62-64.
Article in Journal or Book Nils Alstrup Dahl, "The Origin of the Earliest Prologues to the Pauline Letters," Semeia 12 (1978): 233-277.
Article in Journal or Book Von David W. Deakle, "Harnack and Cerdo: A Reexamination of the Patristic Evidence for Marcion's Mentor," Gerhard May & Katharina Greschat, eds., Marcion Und Seine Kirchengeschichtliche Wirkung / Marcion and His Impact on Church History. Text Und Untersuchungen Zur Geschichte Der Altchristlichen Literatur. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2002. Hbk. ISBN: 3110175991. pp.177-190.
Article in Journal or Book J. Delobel, "The Lord's Prayer in Textual Tradition. A Critique of Recent Theories and Their View of Marcion's Role," J.-M Sevrin, ed., The New Testament in Early Christianity: La Reception Des Ecrits Neotestamentaires Dans Le Christianisme Primitif. Leuven University Press, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 9061863082. pp.406.
Article in Journal or Book Hendrik Jan Willem Drijvers, "Marcionitism in Syria. Principles, Problems, Polemic," Second Century 6 (1987 / 1988): 153-172.
On-line Resource Marcion: Possible Progenitor of Three Famous Christian Communities: Baptists, Catholics, Gnostics (Ray Embry)
Article in Journal or Book E. Evans, "Tertullian's Commentary on the Marcionite Gospel," Studia Evangelica (1959): 699-705.
Article in Journal or Book W.H.C. Frend, "Marcion," Expository Times 80.11 (1969): 328-332.
Article in Journal or Book John G. Gager, "Marcion and Philosophy," Vigiliae Christianae 26 (1972): 53-59.
Article in Journal or Book Robert M. Grant, "Notes on Gnosis 1. Marcion and the Old Testament," Vigiliae Christianae 11 (1957): 145-51.
Article in Journal or Book Robert M. Grant, "Rival Theologies. Gnosticism, Marcion, Origen," Arnold Joseph Toynbee, ed., The Crucible of Christianity. London, 1969. pp.316-330.
Article in Journal or Book Robert M. Grant, "Marcion and the Critical Method," Peter Richardson & John Collidge Hurd, eds., From Jesus to Paul. Studies in Honour of Francis Wright Beare. Waterloo, ON, 1984. pp.207-215.
Article in Journal or Book Englebert Gutwenger, "The Anti-Marcionite Prologues," Theological Studies 7 (1946): 393-409.
Book or monograph Adolf Von Harnack, Marcion, das Evangelium vom fremden Gott, 2nd edn. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs Verlag, 1924. English Transslation: Marcion: The Gospel of the Alien God. Durham: Labyrinth, 1989.
On-line Resource Marcion (Adolf Von Harnack, History of Dogma)
Book or monograph James Rendel Harris, On the Trail of Marcion. Tübingen, 1927.
On-line Resource Peter M. Head, "The Foreign God and the Sudden Christ: Theology and Christology in Marcion's Gospel Redaction," Tyndale Bulletin 44.2 (1993): 307-321. View in PDF format pdf
Article in Journal or Book Angus John Brockhurst Higgins, "The Latin Text of Luke in Marcion and Tertullian," Vigiliae Christianae 5 (1951): 1-42.
Article in Journal or Book J.B. Higgins, "The Latin Text of Luke in Marcion and Tertullian," Vigiliae Christianae 5 (1951): 1-42.
Article in Journal or Book Angus John Brockhurst Higgins, "How then know this troublous teacher? Further reflections on Marcion and his Church," Second Century 6 (1987/88): 173-191.
Book or monograph R. Jospeh Hoffman, Marcion: On the Restitution of Christianity: An Essay on the Development of Radical Paulinist Theology in the Second Century. Chico: Scholars, 1984.
Article in Journal or Book R. Joseph Hoffman, "How Then Know This Troublous Teacher? Further Reflections on Marcion and his Church," Second Century 6.3 (1987/88): 173-191.
Article in Journal or Book Winrich Löhr, "Did Marcion distinguish betweena just god and a good god?" Gerhard May & Katharina Greschat, eds., Marcion Und Seine Kirchengeschichtliche Wirkung / Marcion and His Impact on Church History. Text Und Untersuchungen Zur Geschichte Der Altchristlichen Literatur. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2002. Hbk. ISBN: 3110175991. pp.131-146.
On-line Resource Fragments of Marcion (Peter Kirby)
Book or monograph John Knox, Marcion and the New Testament. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1942. Reprint: 1980. Hbk. ISBN: 0404161839.
Article in Journal or Book John Knox, "On the Vocabulary of Marcion's Gospel," Journal of Biblical Literature (1939): 193-201.
On-line Resource A Reconstruction of Marcion's Text to the Galatians. Part I: Greek-English Internlinnear. (Daniel Jon Mahar)
On-line Resource A Reconstruction of Marcion's Text to the Galatians. Part II: English Translation & Notes. (Daniel Jon Mahar)
Article in Journal or Book Andrew McGowan, "Marcion's love of creation," Journal of Early Christian Studies 9 (2001): 295-311.
Article in Journal or Book Gerhard May, "Marcion in Contemporary Views: Results and Open Questions," H.J.W. Drijvers, "Marcionism in Syria: Principles, Problems and Polemics," and R.J. Hoffmann, "How The Know This Troublous Teacher?" Special edn of The Second Century, Vol. 6 (1987/1988): 129-191
On-line Resource G.R.S. Mead, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten. London and Benares, 1900; 3rd Edition 1931. pp.241- 249.
Article in Journal or Book E. Muehlenberg, "Marcion's Jealous God," Donald F Winslow, ed., Discipline Nostra: Essays in Memory of Robert F. Evans. North American Patristic Society, 1979. Pbk. ISBN: 0915646056. pp.212.
Article in Journal or Book Charles M. Neilson, "The Epistle to Diognetus. Its Date and Relationship to Marcion," Anglican Theological Review 52.2 (1970): 77-91.
Article in Journal or Book Charles M. Neilson, "Polycarp and Marcion," Theological Studies 47 (1986): 297-299.
Book or monograph Walter Nigg, Marcion. Stuttgart / Berlin, 1968.
Article in Journal or Book Gilles Quispel, "Marcion and the text of the New Testament," Vigiliae Christianae 52.4 (1998): 349-360.
Article in Journal or Book Heikki Räisänen, "Marcion and the origins of Christian Anti-Judaism," Temenos 33 (1997): 121-135.
Book or monograph Heikki Räisänen, Marcion, Muhammed and the Mahatma. Exegetical Perspectives on the Encounter of Cultures and Faiths. London, 1997.
On-line Resource Robert Rainy, The Ancient Catholic Church. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1902. Hbk. pp.119-227.
Article in Journal or Book Alistair Stewart-Sykes, "Bread and fish, water and wine. The Marcionite menu and the maintenance of purity," Gerhard May & Katharina Greschat, eds., Marcion Und Seine Kirchengeschichtliche Wirkung / Marcion and His Impact on Church History. Text Und Untersuchungen Zur Geschichte Der Altchristlichen Literatur. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2002. Hbk. ISBN: 3110175991. pp.207-220.
Article in Journal or Book Laurence H. Stookey, "Marcion, Typology and Lectionary Preaching," Worship 66.3 (1992): 251-262.
On-line Resource The Gospel of Marcion and The Gospel of Luke Compared (Charles B. Waite)
On-line Resource Outline of the Gospel of Marcion (Charles B. Waite)
Article in Journal or Book Hellenization RevisitedDaniel H. Williams, "Harnack, Marcion and the Arguments of Antiquity," Wendy E. Helleman, ed., Hellenization Revisited. Shaping a Christian Response within the Greco-Roman World. Lanha, MD, 1994. ISBN: 0819195448. pp.223-240.
Article in Journal or Book David Salter Williams, "Reconsidering Marcion's Gospel," Journal of Biblical Literature 108 (1989): 477-796.
Article in Journal or Book Stephen G. Wilson, "Marcion and the Jews," Stephen G. Wilson, ed., Anti-Judaism in Early Christianity. II. Separation and Polemic. Studies in Christianity and Judaism 2. Waterloo, ON, 1986. Pbk. ISBN: 088920196X. pp.45-58.
On-line Resource Robert Smith Wilson, Marcion: A Study of a Second Century Heretic. London: Clarke, 1933. pp.190.
Article in Journal or Book John W. Miller, "In the Footsteps of Marcion: Notes Toward an Understanding of John Yoder's Theology," Conrad Grebel Review 16.2 (1998): 82-92.
On-line Resource Edward J. Young, "Biblical Criticism in the Second Century" (Pd.D. diss., The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1943).View in PDF format pdf [Reproduced by permission of the current copyright holder]

Biographies

On-line Resource Marcion: Portrait of a Heretic (Robert I. Bradshaw)View in PDF format pdf

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