Judith M. Lieu is Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. She has written numerous books, including I, II, and III John: A Commentary (2008), Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (2004), and Neither Jew nor Greek: Constructing Early Christianity (2002).

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1. Introduction
Part I. The Polemical Making of Marcion the Heretic: 2. The beginnings of the construction of a heretic: Justin Martyr
3. Irenaeus and the shaping of a heretic
4. Marcion through Tertullian's eyes
5. The heresiological tradition
6. Theology and exegesis against Marcion
7. Marcion in Syriac dress
Part II. Marcion through his Scriptures: 8. Marcion as editor and interpreter I: Marcion's Gospel
9. Marcion as editor and interpreter II: Marcion's Apostolikon
10. Marcion's other writings
Part III. The Second-Century Shaping of Marcion: 11. Marcion in his second-century context
12. Principles of Marcion's thought and their context I: God
13. Principles of Marcion's thought II: the Gospel
14. Principles of Marcion's thought III: life and practice
15. Principles of Marcion's thought IV: the contradictions of the Gospel
16. Afterword: Marcion and the making of a heretic.

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