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Marcionite Prologues to Paul and Anti-Marcionite Prologues to the Gospels

Written between the 2nd and the 4th century; the place is not known. The date is disputed or rests on weak evidence.

Two sets of short anonymous prefaces: one to the letters of Paul and one to the Gospels of Mark, Luke and John.

Prologue · first written in Latin

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How we know the date and place

Date written not sure

De Bruyne and Harnack: second century; J. Regul, Die antimarcionitischen Evangelienprologe (1969) and Koester: gospel prologues are fourth century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Marcionite_prologues
Two different works with two different dates; neither date is settled.

Place written not known

Regul 1969; the Latin West is all that can be said