Table Of ContentThe Text of Marcion’s Gospel
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The Text of Marcion’s Gospel
By
Dieter T. Roth
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The text of Marcion’s gospel / by Dieter T. Roth.
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Contents
Preface ix
Abbreviations x
1 Introduction 1
2 History of Research 7
3 Sources and Methodology 46
4 Tertullian as a Source: Multiple Citations 83
5 Tertullian as a Source: Citations only in Adversus Marcionem 185
6 Epiphanius as a Source 270
7 The Adamantius Dialogue as a Source 347
8 Additional Sources 396
9 The Reconstruction of Marcion's Gospel 410
10 Initial Conclusions and Avenues for Future Research 437
Bibliography 441
Indexes 461
Preface
This monograph is a revision and significant expansion of my 2009 Ph.D. disser-
tation at the University of Edinburgh entitled “Towards a New Reconstruction
of the Text of Marcion’s Gospel: History of Research, Sources, Methodology,
and the Testimony of Tertullian.” I would like to express appreciation, espe-
cially to my primary supervisor Larry Hurtado and my secondary supervisor
Paul Foster, but also to my internal examiner Paul Parvis and external exam-
iner Ulrich Schmid, for the way in which they shaped and honed my initial
work on the text of Marcion’s Gospel. I am also thankful for my fellow Ph.D.
students in Edinburgh, in particular my nt colleague Chris Keith and church
history colleague Sebastian Moll, for their stimulating conversations about
early Christianity and their encouragement of this project. Finally, I am grate-
ful to Bart D. Ehrman and Eldon Jay Epp for accepting this work in their series
New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents and to E.J. Brill for publishing it.
