Timeline for How did Luke the Evangelist die?
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| Jul 2 at 17:10 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | @NigelJ says "It is easy to criticise". True. But as far as I can see the short quote above is the entirety of what he had to say about Luke. It would be far more believable and acceptable if he had indicated where he heard about this. For instance, the first two entries in Foxe's Book of Martyrs are about Peter and Paul, and they do include citations to ancient writers. For Luke's entry, there is only an unattributed "supposed to have". But as you say, it was a very different day then. | |
| Jul 2 at 16:57 | comment | added | Nigel J | @RayButterworth Foxe lived in a very different day from us. It is easy to criticise. But unless substantial evidence is available about the particular matter of Luke ., . . . . . . . then Foxe has simply made a suggestion. | |
| Jul 2 at 12:37 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | He is more respected now, but for a long time definitely wasn't. E.g. the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica says "The gross blunders due to carelessness have often been exposed, and there is no doubt that Foxe was only too ready to believe evil of the Catholics, and he cannot always be exonerated from the charge of wilful falsification of evidence.", as reported in Foxe's Book of Martyrs - Wikipedia. | |
| Jul 2 at 6:03 | comment | added | Nigel J | @RayButterworth For over four centuries Foxe's Book of Martyrs had pride of place alongside the Authorised Version of the Bible in many homes. He was a respected scholar who reported, faithfully, his own researched findings. Did you just 'make it up' that Foxe mis-reported something ? Or can you substantiate your accusation with hard evidence ? | |
| Jul 2 at 0:54 | comment | added | How why e | Thank you, Nigel. Your help is always appreciated! | |
| Jul 2 at 0:17 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | That Wikipedia article contains a lot of negative views of Foxe's scholarship and reliability. When writing 1500 years after the fact, did he have a source for "supposed to have been hanged", or did he just make it up? | |
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| Jul 1 at 19:09 | history | answered | Nigel J | CC BY-SA 4.0 |