Herbert Marsh and Gospel origins

[Steven Avery]

Herbert Marsh (1757-1839)
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Marsh, Herbert, 1757-1839
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marsh

BCHF
The Multi-Source Hypothesis shared by Marsh, Boismard, Rolland and Burkett
https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13160&sid=61063a6861952c82560f6f9c7ece2907

From Wikipedia
Marsh, Herbert (1823) [1801]
"Dissertation on the Origin of our Three First Canonical Gospels,"
in Michaelis, John David (ed.). Introduction to the New Testament Vol. 3, pt. 2 (2 ed.), F. & C. Rivington; pp. 167–409.
https://search.worldcat.org/title/9174154

1793 - Michaelis - Marsh
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1801 - Marsh
https://books.google.com/books?id=77VQzL7QvDwC&pg=PA1
https://books.google.com/books?id=imMVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1
https://archive.org/details/a-dissertation-on-the-origin-and-composi

1823 - Michaelis - Marsh
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[Steven Avery]

DNB - Herbert Marsh
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Dictionary_of_National_Biography_volume_36.djvu/218

In 1792 appeared two essays by Marsh on 'The Usefulness and Necessity of Theological Learning to those designed for Holy Orders,' and another vindicating the authenticity of the Pentateuch. In 1793 he issued the first volume of the translation of J. D. Michaelis's 'Introduction to the New Testament,' with notes and dissertations from his own pen. The work first introduced English scholars to the problems connected with the four gospels and with their relations to each other. Three more volumes followed consecutively, the last being published in 1801. The third volume contained the famous dissertation on 'the origin and composition' of the three first gospels (published separately in 1802), and Marsh's own 'hypothesis,' and its 'illustration,' which, though highly esteemed by continental scholars for its wide and accurate scholarship, critical insight, and clearness of perception, aroused a storm of adverse criticism from theologians of the conservative school at home. One of the chief opponents was Dr. John Randolph [q. v.], bishop of Oxford, who in his 'Remarks,' published anonymously in 1802, condemned Marsh's critical researches as 'derogating from the character of the sacred books, and injurious to Christianity as fostering a spirit of scepticism.' Marsh replied, both in ' Letters to the Anonymous Author of Remarks on Michaelis and his Commentator,' and more fully in 'An Illustration of the Hypothesis proposed in the Dissertation on the Origin and Composition of our three first Canonical Gospels' (1803), descending to what Randolph, who is generally very temperate in his language, designated in a 'Supplement to his Remarks,' 'a coarse strain of low abuse.' Though Marsh affected to despise his antagonist as one not worthy of 'wasting time and health' on, he returned to the fray in a 'Defence of the Illustration' (1804), which he styled 'a clincher.' Other attacks upon Marsh's theory were by Veysie and William Dealtry [q. v.]

 

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Schaff mentions Eichhorn
https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc1/hcc1.i.XII.77.html

 

[Steven Avery]

Robert Taylor

The Diegesis: Being a Discovery of the Origin, Evidences, and Early History of Christianity ... : Robert Taylor : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Chapter XXXVII.
Charges brought against Christianity by its early adversa-
ries, and the Christian manner of answering those charges—
The Doctrine of Manes and his History—Demonstration
that no such person as Jesns Christ ever existed—Admission
of Bishop Herbert Marsh—Admissions to the same effect of
the early Fathers..................................

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P. 256
ADMISSIONS OP BISHOP HBRBBBT MARSH. ,
Bishop Marsh, in his Michaelis, the highest authority
we could possibly appeal to on this subject, **
admits, that
“ it is a certain fact, that several readings in our common
printed text are nothing more than alterations made by
Origen, whose authority was so great in the Christian
church, that emendations which he proposed, though, as
he himself acknowledged, they were supported by the evi-
dence of no manuscript, were very generally received.”^
Hie reader will do himself the justice to recollect, that
Origen lived and wrote in the third century, and that ** no
manuscript of the New Testament now extant is prior to
the sixth century; and, what is to be lamented, various
readings which, as appears from the quotations of the
Fathers, were in the text of the Greek Testament, are to
be found in none of the manuscripts which are at present
remaining.Ӥ

* See the chapter on Origen.
+ “ The Introduction to the New Testament by MkhaeHa, late profc—oc at
GOttingen, as translated by Marsh, is thettmndard work, cotnprehend9ig all that
is important on the subject.”—The teamed Bit hop •/Lindmjf, pteted in BMtiey't
Annotationt on the OotpeU, vol. 1. (the intnxL), p. xxri-
X Michaelis’s Introduction to New Test, by Bishop Marsh, vol. 2, p. 368.
i Ibid. toI. 2, p. 160.