Authorship of Luke–Acts
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The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles make up a two-volume work which scholars call Luke–Acts.[1] The author is not named in either volume.[2] According to a Church tradition, first attested by Irenaeus (c. 130 – c. 202 AD), he was the Luke named as a companion of Paul in three of the Pauline letters, but "a critical consensus emphasizes the countless contradictions between the account in Acts and the authentic Pauline letters."[3] The eclipse of the traditional attribution to Luke the companion of Paul has meant that an early date for the gospel is now rarely put forward.[3] Most scholars date the composition of the combined work to around 80–90 AD, although some others suggest 90–110,[4] and there is textual evidence (the conflicts between Western and Alexandrian manuscript families) that Luke–Acts was still being substantially revised well into the 2nd century.[5]