Marcian, founder of the second century Christian group imaginatively called the Marcianites,

had some beliefs that would be caused for stoning in the life of Brian.

This week, Dr Bart Ehrman joins me to talk about what those beliefs were,

Marcian's own personal gospel, and what other Christians thought about it.

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Welcome back to misquoting Jesus where this week we're talking about Marcian, possibly the first Christian

heretic. We've also got

listeners questions at the end where I'll be asking whether the disciples staged Paul's vision of

Jesus and what three questions Bart would ask the writer of the Gospel of Mark. So be sure to

stick around for those. But before all of that, how are you this week? Yeah, I'm doing pretty well.

You know, we're sort of in the middle of a semester now.

And the students who looked very bright-eyed and eager on the first week or two are now looking a little bit worn out.

And so between studying and frat parties, I think it takes its toll after a while.

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