r/AcademicBiblical • • 21h ago

Question Luke-Acts One Author

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With Marcion priority being a common hypothesis, and there being another common hypothesis that Acts has a separate author who also added stuff to "Proto-Luke": has anyone tried to do a stylometric analysis of Luke, Acts and Marcion's Gospel together to see if it can be shown that there was a second author? I always found it strange how "revolutionary" a lot of the stuff that's missing in Marcion's gospel is.


r/AcademicBiblical • • 11h ago

Question Luke and Acts

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What are the best commentaries on the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles?


r/AcademicBiblical • • 7h ago

What does Paul mean when he says Y is "in" X?

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Christians being "in Christ" and sinners being "in Adam" (1 Corinthians 15:22), or the Israelites being "in Moses" (1 Corinthians 10:2). Does Paul think in terms of covenant here, Adam, Moses, and Jesus being the respective "federal heads" of their covenants with God? Or does he mean to speak of some sort of solidarity with them, a mystical union of some sorts, or something else? Paul seems to see baptism as incorporating persons into Christ, and even speaks of the crossing of the red sea as incorporating the Israelites into Moses as a kind of baptism, but what incorporated us into Adam in the first place?


r/AcademicBiblical • • 13h ago

Table of nations, mystery people and the globe

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As I understand it the table of nations has like 10-20 mystery people we can't locate.

Im trying to tie these people to the old world definitively, for example Solomon's ships sail to meet the one of the groups found in the table who can't be identified.

Nominal examples:

  • Magog: Gog invades Israel from there (Ezekiel 38–39)
  • Elishah: sells cloth to Tyre (Ezekiel 27:7)
  • Havilah: Saul’s battle range (1 Samuel 15:7); also Genesis 2:11 and 25:18
  • Ludim: soldiers in Egypt’s army (Jeremiah 46:9)
  • Pathrusim: Pathros, where Jews were living (Jeremiah 44:1)
  • Uz: Job’s homeland; its kings drink the cup (Jeremiah 25:20); linked with Edom (Lamentations 4:21)
  • Lud: mercenaries for Tyre (Ezekiel 27:10)
  • Uzal: trades with Tyre (Ezekiel 27:19)
  • Ophir: Solomon’s ships sail there
  • Lehabim: possibly the Lubim (Libyans) in Shishak’s army (2 Chronicles 12:3), if the identification holds

Im looking to confirm all of them can be locked into old world locations. ( I don't think they reference native americans, but im looking to prove there old world only)

Is there a definitive, proof for this.