Bible

[Wiliam Gary]

Was Luke a gentile or a jew?

[edwardian]

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09420a.htm
He was not a Jew.

[antiguru]

Which is an internet and technology question because.....?

[kujawski]

he had a dell power edge 6400, with scsi raid 5, and 4gb ram.
that was Luke Jones, ,the chap i used to work with in london.

[Clanad]

While there's plenty of room for reasoned debate, an alternative view should consider a couple of facts in evidence, in my opinion. In Luke's writing of Acts Chapter 21, he relates that the Jews are extremely angry with Paul/Saul for bringing Gentiles into the Temple area. Except that the Gentile named as being brought to the Temple is Trophimus who is an Ephesian. And actually, Luke relates that Paul never really brought Trophemus to the Temple, but had been seen on the streets of Jerusalem with the man. If the Jews wanted to berate and possibly stone to death Paul for this behavior, they would have needed to look no further than Luke himself, since Luke clearly describes the interior of the Temple courtyards and indicates a great familiarity with the Temple mode of worship and conduct of the Chief Priest and others (Luke 1:8 to 20). It's apparent to some scholars that the reason for not attacking Paul on the basis of Luke's transgreesion into the Temple, is that Luke is a Jew, himself. Lastly, there's indepth consideration given to Luke's relationship with Mary, the mother of Yeshua. In order to gain the intimate knowledge of her (Luke 2: 19-51) and how she felt about her Son, Luke would most certainly have had to be a Jew. Again, I think there's ample room for discussion based on our knowledge of the "Good Doctor"...

[antiguru]

Well, tonyted, one with categories on a site for answering questions.

I don't think my answer warranted your response.

[Narolines]

Yes - and this one is in History & Myths, where it should be...........

[antiguru]

In that case, my apologies folks. I was sure it was in I & T. Either my eyes or browser are playing tricks on me or the Editor has moved it, because I never stray into this category and don�t recognise any other questions either side.

Oh well.

[chakka35]

Since we have no idea who "Luke" was ( the names were allocated to the otherwise anonymous gospels in about AD180) we can know nothing about his shoe-size, colour, hair-length, religion or veracity. The latter is the most important.