Living Footnotes in the Gospel of Luke

Download or read book Living Footnotes in the Gospel of Luke written by Luuk van de Weghe and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Luke interview eyewitnesses to write his Gospel? Living Footnotes in the Gospel of Luke provides a careful, thorough examination of Luke’s claims (Luke 1:1–4), demonstrating that he not only claims to use living sources but also did so. It builds a corroborative evidence case towards this end, not merely by accumulating unrelated strands of evidence, but by showing the interconnectedness of independent lines of subtle clues in Luke’s text. These historically rich, unintentional features weave together to generate a robust impression upon the reader: Luke not only relied on living informants but in fact sifted his sources in preference of eyewitness testimony.