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Tuesday 29 November 2022

Is Luke's Geography all skrewed up? On John Kloppenburg in Jacob Berman's History Channel

 A short time ago, John Kloppenburg featured on Jacob Berman's History Channel with the following interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHX7OeVwbzw


As I am going through the entire vocabulary of the New Testament at the moment, to compare the lexicography of the Marcionite collection to that of the canonical New Testament, the following appears with regards to the mention of city or cities in both collections.

From the list below, it appears that what John Kloppenburg is saying with regards to 'Luke' captures, indeed, the one who is responsible for Acts and also for the redaction of Marcion's Gospel. Marcion himself seems to have been more knowledgeable about the geography than his redactor. Just like 'Matthew' does, Marcion speaks of Kapharnaum as a city (Mt 9,1), but almost all other references to cities are unattested for his Gospel, and neither is the passage that Kloppenburg mentions on Chorazin, Bethsaida and Kapharnaum, Tyros and Sidon when Jesus is already on his way, far away from there.
It seems, therefore, that - wherever Acts was written, this redaction shares the 'citification' of the landscape, not yet known to Marcion's Gospel, and, if we add, his Pauline letter collection. Here, again, it is only in Rom 16:23 (note, that the last two chapters of Rom are missing in Marcion's Rom) that there is explicit mention of 'city', and in 2Cor 12:26, a chapter missing in Marcion's 2Cor, Paul speaks of the perils of the city, after having mentioned in 2Cor 11:32 (another chapter missing in Marcion's 2Cor) the city of Damascus. Except for these mentions, Paul never makes city his concern.


* indicates that the word is present in Marcion's collection

*πόλις

174

*Ev 4,31. 43; 9,6 (? Adamantius, accepted by Klinghardt and NA28); 14,21

in Lc 8,1. 39; 13,22; 19,41; 23,50; 24,48, verses that are absent from *Ev , then Lc 7,37, where this part is missing in *Ev fehlt, but present in Mt 2,23; 4,5; 5,14. 35; 8,33. 34; 9,1. 35; 10,5. 11. 14. 15. 23; 11,1. 20; 12,25; 14,13; 21,10. 17. 18; 22,7; 23,34; 26,18; 27,53; 28,11; Mc 1,33. 45; 5,14; 6,11. 33. 56; 11,19; 14,13. 16; Lc 1,26. 39; 2,3. 4. 11. 39; 4,29. 31. 43; 5,12; 7,11. 12. 37; 8,1. 4. 27. 34. 39; 9,5. 10; 10,1. 8. 10. 11. 12; 13,22; 14,21; 18,2. 3; 19,17. 19. 41; 22,10; 23,19. 51; 24,49; Jn 1,44; 4,5. 8. 28. 30. 39; 11,54; 19,20; Acts 4,27; 5,16; 7,58; 8,5. 8. 9. 40; 9,6; 10,9; 11,5; 12,10; 13,44. 50; 14,4. 6. 13. 19. 20. 21; 15,21. 36; 16,4. 11. 12. 13. 14. 20. 39; 17,5. 16; 18,10; 19,29. 35; 20,23; 21,5. 29. 30. 39; 22,3; 24,12; 25,23; 26,11; 27,8; Rom 16,23; 2Cor 11,26. 32; Ti 1,5; Heb 11,10. 16; 12,22; 13,14; Jas 4,13; 2Pet 2,6; Jude 1,7; Rev 3,12; 11,2. 8. 13; 14,20; 16,19; 17,18; 18,10. 16. 18. 19. 21; 20,9; 21,2. 10. 14. 15. 16. 18. 19. 21. 23; 22,14. 19

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