"Luke" and Paul
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3968459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Morton S Enslin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1938 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 81 |
| Publication date | 1938-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/594195 |
| OpenAlex | W2333877073 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
THAT THE AUTHOR of Luke-Acts had no knowledge of the Pauline epistles is assumed today as axiomatic by most New Testament critics. Modern introductions either ignore the matter or dismiss it with a sentence. To question the truth of the axiom is to risk the charge of belonging to the lunatic fringe of criticism. The Tiibingen school took the dependence of Acts upon the Pauline letters for granted, in Sabatier's happy phrase, as une sorte de these qui n'a pas besoin de demonstration. Zeller assumed it without argument. Overbrook cited Acts 9: 19-30; 15: 1-33; 18: 24-28 as sufficient evidence. Jacobsen' sought at some length to prove the first twelve chapters of Acts were built up from I Corinthians and Galatians; II. Schulze 2 argued Paul's speech at Miletus was verbally dependent upon Paul's letters, particularly I Thessalonians. W. Soltau 3 examined all the speeches of Acts and concluded the speech at Ephesus (Miletus) depended upon I Thes. 2-4; at Athens upon Rom. 1: 11, 14; and the socalled Apostolic Decrees were based on or reflected I Cor. 6 and 8-10. Weizsicker had earlier devoted several pages to the contention that the narrative (in Acts 15) is in the main taken from the letter to the Galatians is supported by the circumstance, the picture given by it is distinct in all those features which it has in common with the letter, but wherever it goes beyond its authority, it is either confined to generalities, or seeks to make the common element clear in the style of an expositor. 4 In the reaction to the Tiibingen reconstruction of early Christianity the pendulum swung to an equal extreme. Among other discredited views was this, the author of Acts had used the epistles. Apparently it was not felt it was necessary to argue the point. To be sure, Sabatier wrote a twenty-five page article,5
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1950 - 2026 (77) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |