Body of St Luke Gains Credibility

New York Times ^ | October 16,2001 | NICHOLAS WADE

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[JMJ333]

Thanks! His feast day is also coming up on the 18th of this month.

[JMJ333]

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[Andrew Byler]

The Evangelist, according to ancient sources, was a physician who was born in Antioch and died at 84 in about 150 A.D. in the Greek city of Thebes.

That can't be right. He'd 've been born in AD 64 by that reckoning, 2 years after he wrote his Gospel and the Book of Acts in AD 62. I'll wager they are off at least 30 years in their date of his death.

[jwfiv]

a relics bump

[JMJ333]

St. Luke

[JMJ333]

Another good link; Here

[topher]

In an earlier test, the Jesuits found that there was talk that St Luke had a curved spine. The skeleton also had a curved spine.

The curved spine was from an afflication in St Luke"s old age. I believe the Jesuits found documentation that St Luke had it and that the match of the skeleton made it likely it was St Luke. I will see if I can find this article. Some of the medical studied have been going on for some time.

[topher]

http://www.traces-cl.com/archive/2000/novembre/luca.htm

From the article:

The research has shown that the bones belonged to a Syrian. This conclusion was reached by the geneticist Guido Barbujani after an analysis of the DNA. The skeleton belongs to a man who died in old age, presumably between 70 and 85 (which is perfectly in line with the information in the two Prologues), about 5 feet 4 inches tall, and of a stocky build. Dr. Terribile Wiel Marin has found in the bones a serious form of osteoporosis, arthrosis of the spine, and considerable wearing down of the teeth.

[topher]

http://www.traces-cl.com/archive/2000/novembre/luca.htm

From the article:

The research has shown that the bones belonged to a Syrian. This conclusion was reached by the geneticist Guido Barbujani after an analysis of the DNA. The skeleton belongs to a man who died in old age, presumably between 70 and 85 (which is perfectly in line with the information in the two Prologues), about 5 feet 4 inches tall, and of a stocky build. Dr. Terribile Wiel Marin has found in the bones a serious form of osteoporosis, arthrosis of the spine, and considerable wearing down of the teeth.

[topher]

Early morning ping for you. Good article, but perhaps the one from November 2000 is better and has more detail.

[topher]

Early morning ping on what I consider to be a good article.

[Serb5150]

Amazing stuff. Thanks for the bump, you always seem to know which threads will interest me the most.
I'm wondering if the Radiocarbon dating is being thrown off by the same stuff that happened with the shroud...

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Bump.

[AppyPappy]

St. Luke was a proselyte to the Christian religion, but whether from Paganism or rather from Judaism is uncertain; for many Jews were settled in Antioch, but chiefly such as were called Hellenists, who read the Bible in the Greek translation of the Septuagint. St. Jerome observes from his writings that he was more skilled in Greek than in Hebrew, and that therefore he not only always makes use of the Septuagint translation, as the other authors of the New Testament who wrote in Greek do, but he refrains sometimes from translating words when the propriety of the Greek tongue would not bear it. Some think he was converted to the faith by St. Paul at Antioch; others judge this improbable, because that apostle nowhere calls him his son, as he frequently does his converts. St. Epiphanius makes him to have been a disciple of our Lord; which might be for some short time before the death of Christ, though this evangelist says he wrote his gospel from the relations of those "who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word."[4] Nevertheless, from these words many conclude that he became a Christian at Antioch only after Christ's ascension. Tertullian positively affirms that he never was a disciple of Christ whilst he lived on earth.[5] No sooner was he enlightened by the Holy Ghost and initiated in the school of Christ but he set himself heartily to learn the spirit of his faith and to practice its lessons

[AppyPappy]

Luke 1 Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled[Or been surely believed] among us,
just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.
Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

[sendtoscott]

There were officially two heads of St. Luke...

I must have missed that part of Acts.

[Irma]

Very interesting read! Thanks for the flag!

[shatcher]

Luke was a follower of Jesus when he was crucified in the 32-32 A.D. He was also an adult then so the date is MORE than 30 years off for his birth.