Joseph B. Tyson's Marcion and Luke–Acts: An Informal Review
Joseph B. Tyson argues in Marcion and Luke–Acts: A Defining Struggle that the canonical version of Luke's gospel and the heretical gospel of Marcion, which was supposed by some proto-orthodox writers to have been a mutilation of canonical Luke, in fact both derive from some earlier proto-gospel from which Marcion omitted some things and to which the author of canonical Luke–Acts added other things as a polemic against Marcionite theology. Based on the book, which I found mostly compelling and an interesting companion to James R. Edwards’ The Hebrew Gospel and the Development of the Synoptic Tradition (which argues that Luke is based primarily on a now-lost gospel written in Hebrew, rather than being a synthesis of Mark and the hypothetical sayings compilation Q), I tried my hand at reconstructing what a draft n -1 of Luke's gospel might look like . It was a fun exercise and one which resulted in a very satisfying and thematically cohesive gospel narrative. I...