Towards Understanding Revelation

Category: The Gospel of Luke

  • 5/26/25 DATING THE GOSPELS, PART 8 – THE WRITINGS OF LUKE

    We are continuing on in Harnack. The next argument involves the term “Christians.” Have you ever wondered how that name came about? Or, perhaps you thought it was a natural name that started at the beginning?  “St Luke in a well-known passage informs us that the name “οἱ Χρηστιανοί” [oi Christianoi; Google: the Christians; G#5546,…

  • 5/19/25 DATING THE GOSPELS, PART 7 – THE WRITINGS OF LUKE

    We’re starting again in Adolf Harnack’s book entitled THE DATE OF THE ACTS AND OF THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS, from 1911. Harnack has a lot to say about Acts, as you might gather from the title of his book. I have his book in pdf form, and amazingly, when he writes about the Greek, I can…