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uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus,

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Welcome back to misquoting Jesus, everyone. Today we're going to be talking about Luke,

supposedly a doctor and traveling companion of Paul, and he's traditionally named as the author

of both the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts. The reason behind

this attribution is tenuous at best. So why was he named author of those books? What are the

arguments against this attribution? And what do the books themselves reveal about their author?

But before we get into that, Bart, good morning. How are you doing today?

Good morning. I'm doing fine. Thanks. How are you doing?

I am well. I am well. I've spent the past several weeks building bookshelves. And when I say building

bookshelves, I'm not like just putting together flat packs from IKEA. I mean, I did that too.

But then they've been screwed against the wall and painted all prettily. And I've got nice wallpaper on the backing. And then I put a wood trim up and also built the extensions. So they all go all the way up to the ceiling. It looks like a built-in bookcase. And I'm very proud of it. But I'm very tired of building now. So like is there a ladder you can get up to the top of the same? There will be. I haven't ordered the ladder yet, but we're going, we need to replace the floor in the library, and then I will be putting a library ladder in, which I'm excited about. And I think the children will be even more excited about when they see it has rolling wheels. Is it one of the ladders that kind of is on a roller or is it a oh my god yeah i want one of those

i think those are fantastic wow sounds like a lot of work yes it's been quite a lot these projects

are always more than i anticipate they're going to be and the building is finally done and we're

now putting the books back on the bookcase, which itself is a huge

task because we've had to, well, Josh actually has spent several weeks devising an ordering

system that makes sense for how he uses the books. But because of the shelf spacing, we're having

to put things in slightly different places than they were supposed to be. So it's a little bit of a trial and error process. But it's going really well. And I'm very excited to have all of our academic research books in one place. Wow. That's good. That's great. Good on you. What are your thoughts on home projects? Do you tackle those yourself or do you outsource?

Well, you know, these days I outsource. I, you know, I kind of miss that gene somehow.

Both my mom and my dad were really good doing things and making things and kind of like refinishing a basement, you know, or repulsoring furniture or they could do all that stuff.

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