The Question of the Greek New Testament

[Over the Hill]

Not bad, Newbie.


I see Acts (and gluke, for that matter) as what emerged after the heretic Marcion showed the other early xtians what a canon of scripture could be useful for.  Marcion's canon consisted of 10 epistles of "paul" and a version of "luke." 

It is unthinkable that Marcion could be denounced as a heretic but that the denouncers would then take his books and use them intact.

Keep up the good work.

I see Acts as definitely written by the same author as gLuke. And I see gLuke as very much a product of the 1st century when belief in an early return of Jesus was still thinkable. Notice that gJohn gives up on that, as does Acts. gLuke is much too neat and coherent a work to have been added to later.