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Between History and Spirit: The Apostolic Witness of the Book of Acts (2020)
Craig S. Keener
http://books.google.com/books?id=3NXaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3
http://books.google.com/books?id=2groDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT53
All scholars agree that Luke was not an eyewitness of the events reported in his first volume. Most obviously, whoever Luke was, he was surely from the Diaspora; many scholars cite his apparent lack of direct acquaintance with Galilean geography,2 and he probably did not know Aramaic.1 Moreover, Luke writes at least a generation after the events that dominate his Gospel (and longer still after those he reports in his infancy narratives). Although a substantial minority of scholars continue to date
Luke-Acts in the 60s, contending that Luke omits Paul’s death because it had not yet occurred when he wrote, and a smaller number date the work, or part of it, in the early second century, the majority of scholars favor the final three decades of the first century, with most clustering in the mid-range of 70-90.4
2. See especially Hengel, Jesus and Paul, 97-128 (who is more impressed with Luke’s acquaintance with Jerusalem and the Judean coast). Still, Luke’s sources sometimes constrain his Galilean topography (cf., e.g., correct Nazareth topography in Luke 4:29).
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craigkeener.com
Craig S. Keener
http://books.google.com/books?id=3NXaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3
http://books.google.com/books?id=2groDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT53
All scholars agree that Luke was not an eyewitness of the events reported in his first volume. Most obviously, whoever Luke was, he was surely from the Diaspora; many scholars cite his apparent lack of direct acquaintance with Galilean geography,2 and he probably did not know Aramaic.1 Moreover, Luke writes at least a generation after the events that dominate his Gospel (and longer still after those he reports in his infancy narratives). Although a substantial minority of scholars continue to date
Luke-Acts in the 60s, contending that Luke omits Paul’s death because it had not yet occurred when he wrote, and a smaller number date the work, or part of it, in the early second century, the majority of scholars favor the final three decades of the first century, with most clustering in the mid-range of 70-90.4
2. See especially Hengel, Jesus and Paul, 97-128 (who is more impressed with Luke’s acquaintance with Jerusalem and the Judean coast). Still, Luke’s sources sometimes constrain his Galilean topography (cf., e.g., correct Nazareth topography in Luke 4:29).
Some info
Luke – Acts & the Historical Jesus - Bible Backgrounds
All scholars agree that Luke was not an eyewitness of the events reported in his first volume. Most obviously, whoever Luke was, he was surely from the Diaspora; many scholars cite his apparent lack of direct acquaintance with Galilean geography, and he probably did not know Aramaic. Moreover...
craigkeener.com
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