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Was Canonical Luke written in the Second Century?—A Continuing Discussion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Leland Edward Wilshire
Affiliation:
(Campbell, Minn., U.S.A.)

Extract

The American scholar John Knox is noted for his defence of the thesis that the canonical gospel of Luke reached its final form after it had passed through the hands of the heretic Marcion in the second century. This thesis, hinted at by the scholar Semler in the eighteenth century and argued by F. C. Baur in the nineteenth century, was again stated by John Knox in an article in 1939 and in a book, Marcion and the New Testament, in 1942..

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page 246 note 1 John, Knox, ‘On the Vocabulary of Marcion's Gospel’, Journal of Biblical Literature LVIII (1939), 193201;Google ScholarJohn, Knox, Marcion and the New Testament (Chicago, 1942).Google Scholar

page 246 note 2 Ibid. pp. 88–113. Cf.William, Sanday, ‘Marcion's Gospel’, Fortnightly Review XXIII (1875), 855–73;Google ScholarWilliam, Sanday, The Gospels in the Second Century (London, 1876).Google Scholar

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page 246 note 5 For one reason or another, the reviewers of the book have not challenged Knox's own linguistic evidence. Cf. reviews by Cadbury, Henry J., Journal of Biblical Literature LXII (1943), 126;Google ScholarStonehouse, N. B., Westminster Theological Journal VI (1943), 95;Google ScholarJohnson, Sherman E., Anglican Theological Review xxv (1943), 232,Google Scholar and Blackman, E. C.. Marcion and His Influence (London, 1948), p. 40.Google Scholar

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page 247 note 2 Ibid.

page 247 note 3 Ibid. pp. 105–6.

page 247 note 4 Ibid. pp. 109–10.

page 247 note 5 Ibid. p. 110.

page 249 note 1 Casey, Robert P., ‘The Armenian Marcionites and the Diatessaron’, Journal of Biblical Literature LVII (1938), 185–94.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 249 note 2 Merrill C. Tenney, in his unpublished doctoral dissertation, indicated that on statistical grounds those quotations from Luke in Tertullian which are derived, presumably directly, from Marcion's gospel differ from the Old Latin in not much higher degree than do those passages which Tertullian quotes presumably from his own orthodox Luke. Cf. Cadbury, Henry J., Journal of Biblical Literature LXII (1943), 127.Google Scholar

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