Living Footnotes in the Gospel of Luke

Did Luke interview eyewitnesses to write his Gospel? Living Footnotes in the Gospel of Luke provides a careful, thorough examination of Luke's claims (Luke 1:1-4), demonstrating that he not only claims to use living sources but also did so. It builds a corroborative evidence case towards this end, not merely by accumulating unrelated strands of evidence, but by showing the interconnectedness of independent lines of subtle clues in Luke's text. These historically rich, unintentional features weave together to generate a robust impression upon the reader: Luke not only relied on living informants but in fact sifted his sources in preference of eyewitness testimony.


About the Author
Luuk van de Weghe is the author of The Historical Tell: Patterns of Eyewitness Testimony in the Gospel of Luke and Acts (2023) and For People Like Us: God's Search for the Lost of Luke 15 (2023). His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals in the field of biblical studies, including New Testament Studies, Tyndale Bulletin, and Bulletin for Biblical Research.