Existence of Marcion questioned?

[JairCrawford]

Justin writes somewhere between 150 and 160. They had no personal contact, directly or indirectly, as justin demonstrates in his routinely mistaken description of marcionite christianity.

Right. Perhaps I’m misunderstanding what you mean by anachronistic. It would seem even by Salm’s late date hypothesis that the proto-Catholic movement and the First Apology are contemporary to each other. Wouldn’t that just make Justin’s writings simply a sloppy polemic? I always thought an anachronism meant inserting something from a modern time into a text with a setting in which said thing would not have existed, but I don’t see a smoking gun to prove that to be specifically the case here. I could totally be misunderstanding what you’re saying, though.