Jason BeDuhn

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Beginning with his book The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon, BeDuhn has stated that the Gospel of Marcion (called simply 'The Gospel' by adherents of Marcionism) was not produced nor adapted by Marcion of Sinope, but instead adopted by him from a pre-existing gospel text from which he says the Gospel of Luke is also derived. [4] [5]

BeDuhn suggests that Luke may be a post-Marcion redaction, but maintains a form of the two-source hypothesis, with Marcion's Gospel interchanged with Luke as the product of a combination of Mark and Q. This differs slightly from Matthias Klinghardt's view that Marcion's gospel was based on the Gospel of Mark, with the Gospel of Matthew based on Mark and Marcion, and the Gospel of Luke expanding on Marcion with reference to Matthew and Mark. [6] These views contrast with assertions of some Church Fathers and the belief of some biblical scholars such as Bruce Metzger and Bart Ehrman that Marcion redacted the Gospel of Luke in accordance with his personal theology. [7] [8] Theologian Adolf von Harnack also accepted the view of the Church Fathers that Marcion wished to "purify" the Evangelion to an original state given by Christ and defy the fabricated Gospel of Luke, all without appealing to revelation. [9]

Projects

BeDuhn has been involved in a collaborative project to edit and translate an ancient Coptic Manichaean manuscript with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Australian Research Council. [10]

Awards

Bibliography

Thesis

  • BeDuhn, Jason (1995). The metabolism of salvation: the Manichaean body in ascesis and ritual (Bloomington, Ind., Indiana University, PhD Diss.). OCLC   312839137.

Books authored

In 2010 and 2013, BeDuhn published a two-part work entitled Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma in which he considers "the deep imprint of Manicheanism on Augustine". [13] [14] [15]

  • BeDuhn, J. (2000). The Manichaean Body in Discipline and Ritual. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN   978-0801862700. OCLC   51494045.
  • ————— (2003). Truth in Translation: Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament. Lanham: University Press of America. ISBN   978-0761825562. OCLC   52127593.
  • ————— (2010). Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, 1: Conversion and Apostasy, 373–388 C.E. Divinations. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN   978-1283898386. OCLC   802048882.
  • ————— (2013). Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, 2: Making a Catholic Self, 388–401 C.E. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN   978-0812207859. OCLC   859161485.
  • ————— (2013). The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon. Salem, Oregon: Polebridge Press. ISBN   978-1598151312. OCLC   857141226.
  • —————; Iain Gardner; Paul Dilley (2014). Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings: Studies in the Cheaster Beatty Kephalaia Codex. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies. Vol. 87. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004282629. ISBN   978-9004234703. OCLC   961532862.
  • —————; Iain Gardner; Paul Dilley (2018-07-14). The chapters of the wisdom of my Lord Mani. Part III. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies. Vol. 92. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV. pp. 343–442 (chapters 321-347). doi:10.1163/9789004363403. ISBN   978-9004363366. OCLC   1043913619. S2CID   166157220.

Books edited

  • 1997 with Paul Mirecki: Emerging from Darkness: Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
  • 2001 with Paul Mirecki: The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and its World. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
  • 2007 with Paul Mirecki: Frontiers of Faith: The Christian-Manichaean Encounter in the Acts of Archelaus. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
  • 2009 New Light on Manichaeism: Papers from the 6th International Meeting of the IAMS. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

References

  1. ↑ Jason BeDuhn (2020). The Founder of Manichaeism: Rethinking the Life of Mani. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9781108499071.
  2. 1 2 "Department Administration". Northern Arizona University. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  3. ↑ BeDuhn, Jason (2010). Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma. Vol. 1 : Conversion and Apostasy, 373-388 C.E. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN   978-0812242102.
  4. ↑ BeDuhn, Jason (2013). The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon. Polebridge Press. pp. 86, 91–92. ISBN   978-1598151312. OCLC   857141226.
  5. ↑ BeDuhn, Jason (2015). "The New Marcion: Rethinking The Arch-Heretic". Forum. 3 (Fall 2015): 163–179.
  6. ↑ Klinghardt, Matthias (2015). "IV. Vom ältesten Evangelium zum kanonischen Vier-Evangelienbuch: Eine überlieferungsgeschichtliche Skizze". Das älteste Evangelium und die Entstehung der kanonischen Evangelien (in German). A. Francke Verlag. pp. 188–231. ISBN   978-3772055492.
  7. ↑ Ehrman, Bart (2003). Lost Christianities . New York: Oxford University Press. pp.  108. ISBN   978-0195141832.
  8. ↑ Metzger, Bruce (1989) [1987]. "IV. Influences Bearing on the Development of the New Testament". The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origins, Developments and Significance (2nd ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 92–99.
  9. ↑ Adolf von Harnack: Marcion: The Gospel of the Alien God (1924) translated by John E. Steely and Lyle D. Bierma
  10. ↑ "Translating an ancient Manichean papyrus manuscript". Australian Research Council. 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  11. ↑ "AAR Book Awards – Past and Current Winners". American Academy of Religion. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  12. ↑ "Jason BeDuhn". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  13. ↑ Nelson H. Minnich, ed. (2015). Journeys in Church History: Essays from the Catholic Historical Review. The Catholic University of America Press. p. 15. ISBN   978-0813228341.
  14. ↑ Kotzé, A (2014). "Reviewed Work: Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma 2: Making a "Catholic" Self 388-401 C.E. by Jason David BeDuhn". Church History and Religious Culture. 94 (4). Brill: 534–537. doi:10.1163/18712428-09404012. JSTOR   43946123.
  15. ↑ Johannes van Oort (2011). "Critical Evaluation of Jason BeDuhn's Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma in Context". Vigiliae Christianae. 65. Brill: 543–567. doi:10.1163/157007211X591830. hdl: 2263/19375 .

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Jason David Beduhn
Born1963
Occupation(s)University teacher, historian, biblical scholar
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship (2004), Best First Book Award in the History of Religions (2001)
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