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tanya wrote:Thank you for the link Reality Rules.

You're welcome. Though it is only blog summary/book review by someone.

tanya wrote:Yup, Dr. Price is an excellent writer, and I am a fan of his many accomplishments. However, I do not agree with you, apparently, that Dr. Price's text addresses my question of how anyone knows anything about "Paul"?

Sure. We can only speculate about 'Paul' and the origins of the texts attributed to him.

In doing that it seems prudent to consider others' speculations, such as Price's.

tanya wrote:Here is a quote from Dr. Price's book, from your link above,

'Marcion’s father was an early Christian.'

This statement to me, is nonsense. How can anyone attest to Marcion's father's beliefs?

Sure. It would seem best to quickly dismiss things like that, and not not dwell on them.

tanya wrote:[re] Dr. Price's statement:

It appears that Marcion’s writings got mixed up with Paul’s

"mixed up"? One phantom's notes confounded with another's? Utterly absurd.

Sure. We currently can only try to look at these things through smokey lens. We need to be concurrently scrutinising Irenaeus, Tertullian, and other later chroniclers to see how pertinent the information in the tenuous information trail is.

tanya wrote:
But, P46 does exist. I renew my request for a response to my submission to the forum a couple days ago on this forum. Let's focus our energy analyzing things that do exist, instead of waxing prophetic about things that don't exist.

I think things like P46 should also be looked at in the context of other information from the period, and later.
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