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When did Marcion make the earliest list of the New Testament books?
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Marcion was a rich shipowner of Sinope, on the southern shore of the Black Sea, but he was also a bishop and the son of a bishop, and contributed handsomely to fund the church at Rome. However, the presbyters could not explain his difficulties and refused to face the important questions he set before them, and apparently he was finally excommunicated.
Marcion said that Paul was the first who had really understood the mission of Jesus. Of the present New Testament, Marcion accepted only ten epistles of Paul, parts of which he also rejected as interpolations. These ten letters, called The Apostle (Apostolikon), were: Galatians, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Romans (except the 15th and 16th chapters), 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, Ephesians, Colossians, Philemonand Philippians. He also included part of the Epistle to the Laodiceans. There was also a gospel, based on Luke's Gospel, which was called simply the Gospel or the Gospel of the Lord, supposedly written by Paul from the direct tradition. Marcion probably published this canon shortly after 140 CE. It was in response to Marcion's list that the catholic-orthodox Church began to define its own New Testament.
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