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Theophilus (Greek: Θεόφιλος) is the name or honorary title of the person to whom the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles are addressed (Luke 1:3, Acts 1:1). It is thought that both works are by the same author, and often argued that the two were originally a single unified work. [1]
Theophilus (Hebrew: תפלוס בר חנן) [1] was the High Priest in the Second Temple in Jerusalem from 37 to 41 CE according to Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews. [2] He was a member of one of the wealthiest and most influential Jewish families in Iudaea Province during the 1st century.
Joanna, wife of Chuza: An ossuary has been discovered bearing the inscription, "Johanna, granddaughter of Theophilus, the High Priest." [221] It is unclear if this was the same Joanna since Johanna was the fifth most popular woman's name in Judaea. [222] Lysanias was tetrarch of Abila around 28 CE, according to Luke (3:1). Because Josephus only ...
Whether Luke was a Jew or gentile, or something in between, it is clear from the quality of the Greek language used in Luke-Acts that the author, held in Christian tradition to be Luke, was one of the most highly educated of the authors of the New Testament. The author's conscious and intentional allusions and references to, and quotations of ...
Luke–Acts has sometimes been presented as a single book in published Bibles or New Testaments, for example, in The Original New Testament (1985) [4] and The Books of the Bible (2007). Luke is the longest of the four gospels and the longest book in the New Testament; together with Acts of the Apostles it makes up a two-volume work from the ...
Luke – a doctor who wrote what is now the book of Luke to Theophilus. Also known to have written the book of Acts (or Acts of the Apostles) and to have been a close friend of Paul of Tarsus; John – a disciple of Jesus and the youngest of his Twelve Apostles
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There is a passage first cited by Maranus in Novatian [37] which shows great similarity to the language of Theophilus. [38] In the next century the book is mentioned by Gennadius of Marseilles [39] as "tres libelli de fide". He found them attributed to Theophilus of Alexandria, but the disparity of style caused him to question the authorship.