What two books did Luke the physician write in the New Testament?

Answer 1

A:Luke's Gospel and Acts of the Apostles are two books of the New Testament that are traditionally attributed to Luke, a physician and companion of Paul. However, these books were originally anonymous and were only attributed to Luke later in the second century. New Testament scholars say there is no good reason to accept these attributions. Furthermore, Luke 1:1-2 say that the book contains those things which are believed among the author's group and which were passed down, coming originally (he presumes) from eyewitnesses. Not a word in that passage of learning the gospel from Paul, but it implies that the author assumes that the source from which he received the gospel did not receive it from an eyewitness either. We now know that the sources mentioned in this passage were Mark's Gospel and the hypothetical 'Q' document.

Thus, we know two books attributed to a doctor, but we do not know any books actually written by a doctor.

Answer 2

A:Although they were both addressed to Theophilus, the third gospel and Acts of the Apostles contain no information of who their author might have been. However, they were both attributed to Luke later in the second century.

Had Luke, the physician and companion of Paul, written these books, he would have been able to write them in his own words and based on what he learnt form Paul himself. Instead, most of Luke's Gospel comes from Mark's Gospel and the hypothetical 'Q' document, indicating that its author knew nothing about the mission and teachings of Jesus apart from what he learnt in those earlier documents. Acts of the Apostles is not history, although it contains material that can only have come from the works of Josephus, a first-century Jewish historian, and even the Bacchae, an ancient play by Euripedes. All this points to the inevitable conclusion that Luke the physician did not write Luke's Gospel or Acts of the Apostles, and was therefore not the author of any book of The Bible.

A:Luke wrote the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.

Answer 3

Luke wrote the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament.