Jason BeDuhn

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Jason BeDuhn
BornJason David BeDuhn Edit this on Wikidata
1963 Edit this on Wikidata
EducationDoctor of Philosophy, Master of Theological Studies, Bachelor of Arts Edit this on Wikidata
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OccupationUniversity teacher, historian, biblical scholar Edit this on Wikidata
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Jason David BeDuhn (born 1963) is an American historian of religion and culture, currently Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University,[1] and former chair of the Department of Humanities, Arts, and Religion.[2]

Education

BeDuhn holds a

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, an M.T.S. in New Testament and Christian Origins from Harvard Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in the Comparative Study of Religions from Indiana University Bloomington.[2]

Research

Manichaeism and Augustine

Much of BeDuhn's published research relates to

Augustine from Manichaeism to Nicene Christianity was not a sudden act but a life-long transformation, with the narrative we now have being the product of Augustine's own idealized retrospect. BeDuhn roots Augustine's dissatisfaction with the Manichaean faith in its practice-focused way of life and external social pressures leading him towards apostasy. The 383 AD law ordered by Flavius Hypatius that condemned anyone who converted from Christianity to Paganism, Judaism, or Manichaeism is cited as one of these strong social pressures.[3]

Marcionite priority

Apostle John and Marcion of Sinope
, c. 11th century.
See also:
Marcion hypothesis

Beginning with his book The First New Testament: Marcion's Scriptural Canon, BeDuhn has stated that the Gospel of Marcion (called simply 'The Gospel' by adherents of Marcionism) was not produced nor adapted by Marcion of Sinope, but instead adopted by him from a pre-existing gospel text from which he says the Gospel of Luke is also derived.[4][5]

BeDuhn suggests that Luke may be a post-Marcion redaction, but maintains a form of the

Bart Ehrman that Marcion redacted the Gospel of Luke in accordance with his personal theology.[7][8] Theologian Adolf von Harnack also accepted the view of the Church Fathers that Marcion wished to "purify" the Evangelion to an original state given by Christ and defy the fabricated Gospel of Luke, all without appealing to revelation.[9]

Projects

BeDuhn has been involved in a collaborative project to edit and translate an ancient Coptic Manichaean manuscript with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Australian Research Council.[10]

Awards

  • BeDuhn won the Best First Book Award from the American Academy of Religion in 2001 for his book The Manichaean Body in Discipline and Ritual, notable for its analysis of religions as goal-oriented systems of practice rationalized within particular models of reality.[11]
  • He was named a
    Guggenheim Fellow in 2004.[12]

Bibliography

Thesis

Books authored

In 2010 and 2013, BeDuhn published a two-part work entitled Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma in which he considers "the deep imprint of Manicheanism on Augustine".[13][14][15]

Books edited

  • 1997 with Paul Mirecki: Emerging from Darkness: Studies in the Recovery of Manichaean Sources. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
  • 2001 with Paul Mirecki: The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and its World. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
  • 2007 with Paul Mirecki: Frontiers of Faith: The Christian-Manichaean Encounter in the Acts of Archelaus. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
  • 2009 New Light on Manichaeism: Papers from the 6th International Meeting of the IAMS. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

References

  1. ISBN 9781108499071
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  2. ^ a b "Department Administration". Northern Arizona University. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  3. ISBN 978-0812242102
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  4. OCLC 857141226
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  5. ^ BeDuhn, Jason (2015). "The New Marcion: Rethinking The Arch-Heretic". Forum. 3 (Fall 2015): 163–179.
  6. ISBN 978-3772055492
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  7. ISBN 978-0195141832
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  8. Clarendon Press
    . pp. 92–99.
  9. ^ Adolf von Harnack: Marcion: The Gospel of the Alien God (1924) translated by John E. Steely and Lyle D. Bierma
  10. ^ "Translating an ancient Manichean papyrus manuscript". Australian Research Council. 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  11. ^ "AAR Book Awards – Past and Current Winners". American Academy of Religion. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  12. ^ "Jason BeDuhn". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  13. ISBN 978-0813228341
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  14. JSTOR 43946123
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  15. hdl:2263/19375
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Sources

  • "About the Author," Truth in Translation, p. 200.
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