The Formal Education of the Author of Luke-Acts

Cover page\nLIBRARY OF NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nContents\nFigures\nPreface\n1 Introduction to the Project\n2 The Author of Luke-Acts\n	Some Traditions about the Author of Luke-Acts\n	What the Text of Luke-Acts Itself Tells Us about Its Author\n3 The Education of the Author of Luke-Acts\n	Ancient Education\n	Illustrations of Ancient School Exercises\n	Did Luke Know Latin?\n4 What Greek Authors would Luke have Known?\n	Reading Lists for Students Advocated by Ancient Rhetoricians and Grammarians\n	The Material Remains of Literary Papyri, Generally, and of School Texts, Specifically, in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt\n	Quotations and Citations of Ancient Literary Works by Luke’s Contemporaries\n	Conclusion\n5 Luke and Homer\n	Homeric Resonance in Luke’s Account of Paul’s Sea Voyage and Shipwreck (Acts 27:1–28:16)\n6 Luke and Aesop\n	The Rejection of Jesus in Nazareth and Aesop in Delphi (Lk. 4:14-30)\n	Two Possible Quotations from Aesop’s Fables in the Double Tradition\n	An Aesopic Quote Unique to the Gospel of Luke\n	“Christianization” of the Aesopic Corpus\n	“Aesopification” of the Christian Corpus\n	Aesopic Influence within the Context of Luke’s Cultural Milieu\n	Conclusion\n7 Luke and Epimenides and Aratus (Acts 17:23, 28a, and 28b)\n	Aratus Τοῦ γὰρ καὶ γένος ἐσμέν (Acts 17:28b) “For we too are his off spring”\n	Epimenides Ἀγνώστῳ Θεῷ (Acts 17:23) “To the unknown god”\n	Epimenides Ἐν αὐτῷ γὰρ ζῶμεν καὶ κινούμεθα καὶ ἐσμέν (Acts 17:28a) “For in him we live and move and are”\n8 Luke and Euripides—Part One: How Did Luke Know the Dramas of Euripides?\n	How Might Luke Have Been Exposed to Euripides?\n	Theaters that Luke Likely Encountered\n	What Was Performed in First-Century ce Theaters?\n9 Luke and Euripides—Part Two: Thematic and Verbal Echoes of Euripides’ Bacchae in the Acts of the Apostles\n	Was Luke Familiar with the Cult of Dionysus?\n	Did Luke Know the Bacchae of Euripides Specifically?\n	Some Thematic and Verbal Echoes of the Bacchae in the Acts of the Apostles\n	Acts 26:14: σκληρόν σοι πρὸς κέντρα λακτίζειν “it is difficult for you to kick against the goads”\n10 Luke and Plato\n	The Study of Plato’s Apology of Socrates in the Ancient Educational Curriculum\n	Familiarity with Plato’s Apology of Socrates among Luke’s Contemporaries\n	Luke’s Portrayal of Jesus as a Socratic Figure in the Gospel of Luke\n	Luke’s Portrayal of Peter (and Other Apostles) as a Socratic Figure in Acts 4 and 5\n	Luke’s Portrayal of Paul as a Socratic Figure in Acts\nAppendix I: Earliest Known Manuscript of the Gospel of Luke\nAppendix II: Latin Literary Texts Preserved on Documents Contemporary with Luke\nBibliography\nIndex of Modern Authors\nIndex of Ancient Passages