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Ausgabe:

Juli/August/2023

Spalte:

712-714

Kategorie:

Neues Testament

Autor/Hrsg.:

Vinzent, Markus

Titel/Untertitel:

Christi Thora. Die Entstehung des Neuen Testaments im 2. Jahrhundert.

Verlag:

Freiburg i. Br. u. a.: Verlag Herder 2022. 400 S. Geb. EUR 38,00. ISBN 9783451395772.

Rezensent:

William Horbury

This is a fascinating and many-sided attempt to embed the making of the New Testament within second-century history and thought. A notable feature of Markus Vinzent’s approach is that not only the formation of the New Testament canon, but also the production of the four gospels, is attributed to the period from Marcion to Irenaeus. The four gospels, he argues, appeared in reaction to Marcion’s gospel in the years 135–144, between Marcion’s arrival in Rome and the issue of his Antitheses, and the canon was shaped in opposition to Marcion’s canon down to about the year 177. The New Testament literature should be read primarily against the background of events from the Bar Kokhba war to martyrdoms and pestilence in the time of M. Aurelius. V. relates this view to the ...


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