Luke/Acts, Josephus, and Lucius Apuleius

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In message <9804271441.AA05120@bae.uky.edu>, D.R. Edwards
<dedwards@bae.uky.edu> writes

>EDWARDS

>

>I've read some material in which the author suggests that the writer of

>Luke/Acts had access to and made use of Josephus' works as well as The

>Golden Ass, written by Lucius Apuleius.  The Luke/Acts writer is thought to

>have drawn from Josephus with regard to the parable of the minas (Luke

>19:11-27), the revolt of Judas the Galilean, and perhaps other cases.  The

>account dealing with the road to Emmaus is thought to have been patterned

>after a similar episode in The Golden Ass.


CARR
I doubt if Luke/Acts draws on Josephus, and the idea of Judas the
Galilean coming from Josephus is particulary week.. I've never heard the
idea of the parable of the minas comes from Josephus. Do you have any
references form Antiquities?


>

>Has anyone investigated this suggestion?  If so, how would one counter the

>suggestion that Josephus and Apuleius drew from the Luke/Acts writer, rather

>than the other way around?


CARR
It is even more absurd to suggest that Josephus drew from Acts. It would
go against all his training as a Pharisee and his tendency to promote
Judaism as the most ancient system of philosophy around.

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