Tag: Historian

  • Did Jesus, Mary and Joseph go to Egypt or to Nazareth ?

    Did Jesus, Mary and Joseph go to Egypt or to Nazareth ?

    In Matthew 2:14, we are told that Joseph took Mary and Jesus to Egypt : ​“When he arose, he took the young child and his moth­er by night, and depart­ed into Egypt.”  Yet in Luke 2:39, they went to Nazareth after Jesus’ birth : ​“And when they had per­formed all things accord­ing to the law of the Lord, they…

  • Luke’s Posi­tion As A Historian

    Some Chris­t­ian apol­o­gists and mis­sion­ar­ies cite A. N. Sher­win-White, who declared Luke to be a mar­velous historian. “For Acts the con­fir­ma­tion of his­toric­i­ty is overwhelming…Any attempt to reject its basic his­toric­i­ty must now appear absurd. Roman his­to­ri­ans have long tak­en it for granted.[1] White sup­ports the accu­ra­cy of Lucan dat­ing of the census. But what is…