The Christian theologian and leader Marcion (active mid-2nd century) promulgated views that were condemned as heterodoxy. Marcion came from the Black Sea seaport town of Sinope on what is now the northern shore of Turkey. According to the writer...

Marcion(C. 85 Tertullian, Quintus Septimius Florens. Bibliography Blackman, Edwin C. Marcion and His Influence. London: S.P.C.K., 1948. Harnack, Adolf von. Marcion: Das Evangelium vom fremden Gott. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1921. A classic. Jonas, H. The...

Marcion of Sinope (ca. 110-160) was a Christian theologian who was excommunicated by the Catholic church as a heretic. His teachings were influential during the 2nd century and a few centuries after, rivalling that of the Church of Rome. As he opposed...

Heikki Raisanen, The Edward Cadbury Lectures at the University of Birmingham, 1995/96. London: SCM Press, 1997. Pp. 293. [pounds]14.95, paper. In this book a biblical scholar observes that the increasing encounter of peoples and religions has brought with it a new historical...

Dating Acts: Between the Evangelists and the Apologists by Richard I. Pervo Polebridge, Santa Rosa, Calif., 2006. 513 pp. $47.50. ISBN 0-944344-73-9. Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle by Joseph B. Tyson University of South Carolina, Columbia, 2006.192 pp. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN 978-1-57003-650-7....