Article **Three points: ** Luke has a special predilection for calling settlements πόλεις and uses πόλις thirty-nine times (forty-three times in Acts). He calls nazareth a πόλις at 1,26; 2,4.39 and 4,29 (bis) which, in the first century, it most assuredly was not, and says the same of Bethlehem (2,4.11), Capernaum (4,13red) 6 , nain…

4Q246 section, the Son of God text, which corresponds to Daniel 7:13-14, and Luke 1:32-33, and 35. Scholars disagree on whether the author of Luke’s infancy narrative was drawing on the same tradition as 4Q246 or not. Some, like Brooke, argue for Luke’s use of the “Aramaic tradition” found in 4Q246, others are more skeptical,…

Luke and Paul Nevertheless, in the last few decades some scholars opted for a limited literary use of the Pauline letters in the Lucan Gospel: For recent suggestions concerning some use of the Pauline letters in the Acts of the Apostles, see e.g. H.S. Kim, Die Geisttaufe des Messias: Eine kompositionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zu einem Leitmotiv…

Noted passage: Some historians at least have noticed what they perceive to be problems with this text in the Gospel of Luke and even as far back as the 17th century. Problems with the Census: I: History does not otherwise record a general Imperial census in the time of Augustus. Now you might have noticed…

“Other ancient authorities lack, in whole or in part, verses 19b-20 (which is given…in my blood)”. The words, “do this in remembrance of me” do not occur in the parallel text in Mark’s Gospel (Mark 14:22) and is also absent from some early manuscripts of Luke’s Gospel, so some scholars argue that there are good…

This is from Mark Powell’s “Introducing the New Testament.” Luke uses Mark as his main source.

1.) I don’t think there is any proof that Luke, a friend of Paul’s, wrote Luke-Acts. There is a section of Acts that suggests narration by eyewitnesses, but there is no reason to take such claims at face value. In ancient literature, authorizing a source in that manner was common, and the implication is not…

Petrine Primacy? 📜In “Antioch’s Aftershocks” (When Judaism and Christianity Began: Essays in Memory of Anthony J. Saldarini, Brill, 2004), Price proposes that if Galatians gives an accurate picture of early apostolic disputes and if Matthew’s Gospel was written in Antioch, then Matthew should be seen as the product of a community divided between Petrine, Jacobean,…

Reapproaching this from an academic perspective 📜Academics generally think of it as fiction meant to support Matthew’s idea of Jesus as the new Moses.Here’s the relevant quote from Brown’s chapter on ‘Pre-Matthean Material’ in his Birth of the Messiah, where he listed exhaustive parallels between Matthew’s birth narrative of Jesus and the Exodus birth story…

It essentially talks about Satan attempting to “tempt” Jesus, Jesus then states “Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.” It’s a parallel verse that follows to Deuteronomy 6:16. Notice how Deuteronomy 6:16 is MOSES talking. “Complementing the mention in Mark 1:12–13 that Jesus…