Luke-Acts

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Luke-Acts is the name usually given by biblical scholars to the composite work of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament. Together they describe the life of Jesus and the subsequents lives of the Apostles.

Both the books of Luke and Acts are anonymous letters written to a person called Theophilus. The book of Acts refers to Luke as "the first book", and the author probably intended both books to be read together. Most scholars believe that they were written by the same person. A traditional view holds that they were written by Luke named in Colossians 4:14, a doctor and follower of Paul, but most modern scholarship doubts this view; a date of between 80 and 150 CE is considered likely for the work's composition. The work is Hellenized and written for a gentile audience.

[edit] References

• Miller, Robert J., The Complete Gospels, pp. 332-342. Polebridge Press, 1992. ISBN 0-944344-49-6
• Luke-Acts in From Jesus to Christ, a PBS series