The basic point is that I have been having an ongoing debate with myself as to whether the Marcionites really believed Jesus was a god completely alien to the traditional Jewish godhead (at least as posited by Philo and the community at Alexandria) or that he was the repentant Logos (cf. the Nag Hammadi treatise the Tripartate Tractate). I have finally come to conclusion and the answer is - I think Jesus was the Logos who is so depressed with his creation (i.e. the world, the Jews) that he has a change of mind and ultimately kills himself on the Cross.
Sounds like a radical revisionist interpretation but as I note in the brief comment at Vinzent's post - I think it is fully supported by the evidence. Indeed the Church Fathers are deliberately hold things back when they condemn Marcionitism. For instance, Jesus is certainly called 'the Stranger' but I think the term was rooted in the concept of - the Logos became estranged from the Jews once they started worshiping demons in their temple.
In any event, I recommend reading the post to see how my thoughts beyond Mar Saba are developing. Strange that the Mar Saba document has so fully taken over my own blog that I have to write on other people's sites to develop my own theological interpretations ...
