In this episode, Professor Markus Vinzent joins History Valley podcast for the first time to discuss his redating of the Gospels to the 2nd century CE and his conclusion that the Gospel of the Lord which is commonly attributed to Marcion was the first Gospel and that the four canonical Gospels Mark, Matthew, Luke and John copied from Marcion’s Gospel.
- See 44 for a summary, IMHO, of his belief.
- See 55:30 for how Marcion is first based on the Synpotics and John.
The Dark Age of Earliest Christianity by Tabor cites Marcion. A convincing case can be made that the rise and development of the teaching of Marcion, often ignored by students of the New Testament, provides a meaningful historical context to which the author of Luke-Acts most likely responds.
A Phantom Jesus: The Teachings of the Second-Century Marcion by Bart Ehrman. Includes an extract “Here is how I explain his views in my book How Jesus Became God.”
The classic study of Marcion is Adolf von Harnack, Marcion: The Gospel of the Alien God, translated by John E. Steely and Lyle D. Bierma (Durham, NC: Labyrinth, 1990; German original of the 2nd ed., 1924). For a modern overview, see [Bart’s] Lost Christianities, pp. 103-09.