I Think I Might Try and Submit My Paper on the Actual Shape of the Marcionite Canon to the 2011 Patristics Conference, Oxford

I learned about it at Roger Pearse's site. I think my argument that the Marcionite canon had the equivalent of our to the Corinthians first followed by Galatians and then Romans is rock solid and the stuff I have at this blog would only need to be reshaped very slightly. My only question is - does Marcion count as a topic for a conference on things 'Patristic'? Maybe I will have re-work the argument to start with the case for thinking that the reason Tertullian cites the order as Galatians, Corinthians, Romans etc. was because this was the canonical order of his source who was clearly a member of the Eastern Church (Justin?) who shared the order of letters with Ephrem. I could then move on to the arguments about Marcion and his canon as an addendum.

It's a pity really that there isn't a Marcionite conference somewhere, sometime in world history. I'd be there for sure, but which 'professional' scholars would attend? Detering isn't doing so well these days. If he wasn't there the whole Marcionite conference would be a waste of time.

Lasset uns beten, dass Hermann wird besser werden. Leute wie ihn kommen nur einmal in einer Generation.