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i have heard that the doctor Luke from the Bible was not Jewish or Roman etc, but Irish. I don;t know where I heard it, nor can follow up with any sources. Something about his real name that was Irish or something. anyone got anything on this? just something I was thinking about today.
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I always thought Luke was a Greek who converted to Christianity (as his name "Loukas" suggests). Loukas means "from Lucania", the region in southern, Greek Italy. Never heard of him being Roman or Irish. :?
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Isn't there something about Luke being from the Troad?
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As far as I know, he is only mentioned in Colossians 4.14 (where he is called a physician), 2 Timothy 4.11, Philemon 24. He is assumed to be behind the "we"-sections in Acts - passing through the Troad, for example. According to later traditions, he was born in Antioch.
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My understanding is that Luke was probably a Greek born and educated Jew. It is quite wrong to assume that Jews only lived in Judea, they lived throughout the Empire and many were hellenized. Ironically many hellenized Jews were more receptive in the early days than the devout ones to "The Way" as the early church was called. If you examine Paul's travels you will see that he always approached the Jewish community synogogue first when he arrived in a new city. Sometimes he was successful there, and other times he was run out on a rail and began to teach the gentiles. I do not see any truth or know of any evidence to an Irish origin.
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Actually, one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel has been genetically identified as having decendants in Africa. It was a documentary a week or so ago.
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We were re-converting The French and english in the 4-6centery AD but i am sure luke was from greece :wink:
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Actually, Luke is mentioned by name in one of Paul's letters. There's no help inside the text on who he is, though Paul refers to him in a way that gave birth to the "doctor" tradition.
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Quote:i have heard that the doctor Luke from the Bible was not Jewish or Roman etc, but Irish. I don;t know where I heard it, nor can follow up with any sources. Something about his real name that was Irish or something. anyone got anything on this? just something I was thinking about today.
As far as i know there is no irish version of luke if that is any help to you :?:
"The Kaiser knows the Munsters,
by the Shamrock on their caps,
And the famous Bengal Tiger, ever ready for a scrap,
And all his big battalions, Prussian Guards and grenadiers,
Fear to face the flashing bayonets of the Munster Fusiliers."
Go Bua
