Jason BeDuhn

Jason David BeDuhn (* 1963 ) is a historian of religion and culture and is currently Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff .

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BeDuhn attended high school graduation from Rock Island , Illinois . He later received his bachelor's degree in religious studies from the University of Illinois , Urbana, and a master's in theology with a focus on New Testament and early Christian history from Harvard Divinity School . He received his PhD in comparative religion from Indiana University , Bloomington .

In 2001 BeDuhn received the American Academy of Religion's Best First Book Award for his book The Manichaean Body in Discipline and Ritual , in which he analyzed religions as goal-oriented systems of practice within certain models of reality. His second book, Truth in Translation: Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament , aroused considerable opposition because it highlighted cases of denominational bias in the process of Bible translation . BeDuhn argues that this would anachronistically insert contemporary Christian views into the translations of the Scriptures on which most English-speaking Christians relied. His third book, Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, I: Conversion and Apostasy, 373-388 CE (2010) contains "a remarkably in-depth study of the Manichaean Augustine, " judged Peter Brown .

Jason David BeDuhn (2012) reconstructed the text of the ' Marcion Gospel' and examined its effects on the Gospel according to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles of Luke , the two-source theory and the source of logic Q (Q hypothesis). BeDuhn argues that the gospel according to Luke of Marcion was not changed for theological reasons, as various church fathers claimed, since for every single motif and text passage from which a passage is said to have been left out, a passage with equivalent content can be found was not present before. Markion's version should therefore better be viewed as a separate variant of Luke's Gospel, derived from the same ancestor as the later canonized Gospel. BeDuhn also notes that many of the minor agreements between the Gospels of Matthew and Luke are not included in Marcion's Gospel, as is the very small number of narrative episodes that they share with the material in the Logia Source Q.

In 2004 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship .

Publications

As an author

• Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, I: Conversion and Apostasy, 373-388 CE . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2009, ISBN 978-0-8122-4210-2 .
• Truth in Translation: Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament . University Press of America, Lanham 2003, ISBN 978-0-7618-2556-2 .
• The Manichaean Body: In Discipline and Ritual . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2000, ISBN 978-0-8018-6270-0 .
• The New Marcion Rethinking the "Arch-Heretic". FORUM third series 4.2 fall 2015, pp. 163–179 westarinstitute.org
• The Myth of Marcion as Redactor: The Evidence of “Marcion's” Gospel. Against an Assumed Marcionite Redaction. Annali di Storia dell'Esegesi (ASE) 29/1 (2012) 21-48 PDF; 324 kB, pages 28
• Marcion's Gospel and the New Testament: Catalyst or Consequence? New Testament Studies, (2017) 63 (2), 324–329. doi: 10.1017 / S0028688516000473
• The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon. Polebridge Press, Salem (Oregon) 2013, ISBN 978-1-59815-131-2 .

As editor

• New Light on Manichaeism: Papers from the 6th International Meeting of the IAMS . EJ Brill, Leiden / Boston, 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-17285-2 , LCCN  2008-050516
• Frontiers of Faith: The Christian-Manichaean Encounter in the Acts of Archelaus (= Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies 61). Together with Paul Mirecki. EJ Brill, Leiden / Boston, 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-16180-1 , LCCN  2007-031049
• The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and its World (= Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies 50). Together with Paul Mirecki. EJ Brill, Leiden / Boston, 2001, ISBN 90-04-11673-7 , LCCN  2001-025757
• Emerging from Darkness: Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources (= Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies 43). Together with Paul Mirecki. EJ Brill, Leiden / New York / Cologne, 1997, ISBN 90-04-10760-6 , LCCN  97-152379

Web links

• Jason BeDuhn. In: Staff Web Server. Northern Arizona University, accessed October 22, 2012 . 
• Dr. Jason Beduhn. Northern Arizona University, accessed October 22, 2012 . 
• Jason BeDuhn "The Secret History of Early Christianity: Jesus - Paul - Marcion - Mani - Augustine" Indiana University Department of Religious Studies, 50th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Lecture, October 16, 2015 [2]
• Jason BeDuhn: Marcion and the Invention of the New Testament. 2000–2016 The Bible and Interpretation. [3]
• Photography by Jason BeDuhn [4]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae. Jason David BeDuhn. Department of Humanities, Arts, and Religion, Box 6031 Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA [1]
2. ^ Book Awards. American Academy of Religion, archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; accessed on November 8, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Peter Brown: The Treasure in Heaven: The Rise of Christianity and the Fall of the Roman Empire . 1st edition. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-608-94849-3 , pp. 801 .
4. ↑ Jason David BeDuhn: The Myth of Marcion as Redactor: The Evidence of “Marcion's” Gospel. Against an Assumed Marcionite Redaction. Annali di Storia dell'Esegesi (ASE) 29/1 (2012) 21-48 PDF; 324 kB, pages 28
5. ↑ Jason David BeDuhn: The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon. Polebridge Press, Salem (Oregon) 2013, ISBN 978-1-598-15131-2
6. ↑ Jason David BeDuhn: The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon. Polebridge Press, Salem (Oregon) 2013, ISBN 978-1-598-15131-2 , p. 83
7. ↑ Jason David BeDuhn: The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon. Polebridge Press, Salem (Oregon) 2013, ISBN 978-1-598-15131-2 , pp. 86-92