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Outline your knowledge and understanding of the issues surrounding authorship and date of Luke's gospel.
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Outline your knowledge and understanding of the issues surrounding authorship and date of Luke's gospel. (30 marks). There are two main issues to be disscussed when considering authorship and date of Luke- They are often put under two simple headings, external evidence and internal evidence. However, the true strory is much more complicated than this. It is usually agreed that the writer of Acts is the same person who wrote Luke. This is because in the preface of both books, they are adressed to the same person, Theophilus. Also, both books share a similar style of vocabulary. Tradition unamimously says Luke as the author. This is sometimes dismissed as no more than guesswork. Howeve, the point is put across by many authors, Leon Morris included, that Luke was not an important enough figure in the early church to have two considerable volumes attributed to him without good reason- surely if people were...
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