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Westar Fall Meeting

Some of the ads for this say "The Christianity Seminar — Radical Questions = Did Christianity begin with Jesus, Paul, Luke, or Constantine?"

and some leave Constantine out of it.

This is what is interesting:

Marcion: Forgotten “Father” & Inventor of the New Testament
Jason BeDuhn

Thursday, 1–3:30 pm

Marcion (c. 85–160 CE) is the most significant figure of second-century Christianity. But his importance has been obscured by his status as a “heretic”—a charge made by his enemies that has all too often been repeated as fact by modern scholarship. Jason BeDuhn will disentangle what we know for certain about Marcion from entrenched assumptions. He will examine Marcion’s role in Christianity’s emergence from Judaism, the increased standing of Paul as an authority figure, and the formation of a Christian set of scriptures. Finally he will explore what Marcion’s New Testament suggests about the development and transmission of Christian literature (such as the Gospel of Luke and the Epistles of Paul).

Jason BeDuhn is Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions at Northern Arizona University, a Guggenheim and National Humanities Center Fellow, and author of The Manichaean Body (or via: amazon.co.uk) (2000, winner of the American Academy of Religion Best First Book Award), Truth in Translation (or via: amazon.co.uk) (2003), Augustine’s Manichaean Dilemma (vol. 1 2010, vol. 2 2013), and The First New Testament (2013).



An Interview with Joe Tyson

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The Christianity Seminar

Celebration of the Publication of the Acts Seminar Report

Saturday, 9–10:30 am

Featuring co-authors Dennis E. Smith and Joseph B. Tyson, and members of the Acts Seminar and Christianity Seminar.

Adam

Anybody going? It's only 20 miles from my hometown and 60 miles from where I live now.

It all looks interesting, but I doubt anyone would want to hear my point of view.