Lost Works of Marcion, The

Full title: The Lost Works of Marcion
Author: Marcion of Sinope
Published: Hypatia Publishing 2022
Format: Hard cover, E-book
Content: These works lost for 1800 years are from Marcion of Sinope an early "heretic" of the Christian Church. He published the first known canon of Christian sacred scriptures, which contained ten Pauline epistles (the Pastoral epistles were not included) and the Gospel of Marcion which is a shorter version of the Gospel of Luke. The new volume contains these works as well as his letters.
Study of the Hebrew scriptures, along with received writings circulating in the nascent Church, led Marcion to conclude that many of the teachings of Jesus were incompatible with the actions of Yahweh, characterized as the belligerent god of the Hebrew Bible. Marcion responded by developing a ditheistic system of belief around the year 144. This notion of two gods—a higher transcendent one and a lower world-creator and ruler—allowed Marcion to reconcile his perceived contradictions between Christian Old Covenant theology and the Gospel message proclaimed by the New Testament.
==Reaction==
Among the scholars of the New Testament, absolute jubilation. Stated leading New Testament scholar Dr Bart Earman, "The value of this work cannot be overestimated.  The Marcionites were a large and noted splinter group of Christians that might have won out if not for Constantine the Great accepting the proto-orthodox way.  To date we have only known about Marcion from his detractors 'baby eater' was one of the kinder things they had to say.
The conservative Christian right wants to say something. If Hypatia Publishing put it out it has to be bad. However, to comment you have to read the thing, and they don't read their own Bible. With the exception of a few mouth open, mind closed* common taters that most of the right rolls their eyes at it goes uncommneted.
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*The kind that call non-Christians helping the needy the work of the Devil and such.
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