Normalized Datasets of Harnack’s Reconstruction of Marcion’s &lt;i&gt;Gospel&lt;/i&gt;

Mark G Bilby

doi:10.5334/johd.47

Abstract

These two datasets are the first born-digital, normalized, peer-reviewed datasets of Harnack’s classic reconstruction of Marcion’s Gospel. The first consists of human-readable postclassical Greek, the second of lemmatized and morphologically tagged text following the openly licensed BibleWorks Greek Morphology schema. The recent deluge of critical editions of Marcion’s Gospel makes Harnack’s public domain work even more relevant as scholars turn from theology- to text-based approaches to restore Marcion’s Gospel and account for its place in the editorial history of early canonical and non-canonical Gospels. These datasets resource Marcion’s Gospel becoming a major topic of interest in Computational Linguistics research.

Highlights

These two datasets are the first born-digital, normalized, peer-reviewed datasets of Harnack’s classic reconstruction of Marcion’s Gospel
Scholars concur that GMarc is a version of the canonical Gospel of Luke
As a contributor to Thilo’s Codex apocryphus Novi Testamenti (Hahn, 1832), August Hahn became the first scholar to produce a fully continuous Greek text of GMarc based on his earlier study (Hahn, 1823) and compilation of attestations

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Morphology key: Bilby, M.G. (2021). Key to BibleWorks Greek morphology (BGM) (v1.1). https://doi. Harnack’s critical study and reconstruction of GMarc in 1921, followed by a second edition in 1924, became history’s third major reconstruction and the scholarly standard for the better part of a century, translated into English several decades later (Harnack, 1990). Tsutsui’s (1992) and Roth’s (2015) reconstructions of GMarc both follow this discontinuous approach. The former is unique in rendering the main text in Latin instead of Greek, while the latter valuably compiles attestations, comparative citations, and critical notes in well-organized chapters and subsections. All recent reconstructions of GMarc make use of newer critical editions of patristic sources (e.g., Tertullian, Epiphanius, Adamantius Dialogue) yet still frequently cite Harnack’s text and follow his decisions. As we show in our First Gospel LODLIB, in total word count and numerous other metrics, the reconstructions of GMarc by Harnack and Roth are closely correlated, while those of Hahn, Klinghardt, and Nicolotti have many notable similarities among them

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