Welcome to Marcion Bible
These pages will reveal some work on reconstructing the edition of the New Testament used by an early Christian group, called the Marcionites after their founder Marcion of Sinope. This edition consisted of only one Gospel and ten Pauline Letters, as opposed to the four Gospels and 14 Pauline letters contained in the canonical New Testament.
Most of the scholars behind the work on display here are located at the Institute for Biblical Studies (Institut für Evangelische Theologie) at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany.
The content and materials stem from various projects at said institute. Matthias Klinghardt spent years on the reconstruction of the Marcionite Gospel. He tried to prove this text to be the oldest published version of a Gospel in Antiquity. Currently we are running the project TENT (The earliest Edition of the New Testament), extending his hyptheses and methods and adopting them to the Pauline letters.
Credits
Many scholars are involved in the research connected to the material on display here, foremost:
- Prof. Dr. Matthias Klinghardt, chair holder and main contributor
- Dr. Jan Heilmann, TENT project coordinator
- Dr. Juan Garces, digital humanities specialist from SLUB library
- Daniel Pauling, administrator of these pages
- ...and many others, not named here...
