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Podcast: New Books in Ancient History
Episode: Joshua Paul Smith, "Luke Was Not a Christian: Reading the Third Gospel and Acts Within Judaism" (Brill, 2024)
Description: One orthodoxy of critical biblical scholarship on the Third Gospel, attributed by later Christian tradition to a companion of Paul named Luke, holds that its author was not ethnically Jewish but rather a Gentile of some kind, either a proselyte to Judaism, a āGodfearerā once attached to a diasporic synagogue, or perhaps a pagan convert to a form of early Christianity reverent to Israelās scriptures.Ā InĀ Luke Was Not A Christian: Reading the Third Gospel and Acts within JudaismĀ (Brill, 2024), Joshua Paul Smith addresses the consensus for the supposedly Gentile Luke and concludes that no solid New Testa...