Ladies and gentlemen, who wrote more of the New Testament than any other writer?

If you said Paul, you would be wrong.

Because word count wise, it's actually Luke, who of course wrote the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts. Luke wrote 25% of the New

Testament by word count. Paul wrote about 23.5% of the New Testament by word count. Of course,

Paul wrote 13 books. Luke wrote two. Both of Luke's books are written to a mysterious figure

known as Theophilus. Who is this Theophilus?

And who are Luke's key eyewitnesses? Because Luke said he was not an eyewitness, but he checked with

eyewitnesses. Well, we're about to have what I think is going to be a very fascinating conversation.

And we're going to talk about who might have been Luke's key eyewitness.

This eyewitness we think has been found archaeologically, and this eyewitness is not

a man, it is a woman, a real biological woman, ladies and gentlemen, not a fake woman,

a real biological woman.

And the person who's going to enlighten us about this is Shane Rosenthal, who has just written

a brand new book, which is about to come out.

It's called Luke's Key Witness.

He is the host of the humble, skeptic website and podcast. Here he is,

ladies and gentlemen. The great Shane Rosenthal, Shane, all the way from the great city of St. Louis.

Shane, how are you? Doing well. Thanks for the invitation. Oh, absolutely. I read your little book, and it is fascinating.

In fact, I checked with a friend of mine who's a New Testament scholar, and he was fascinated by it.

He hadn't heard about this theory that we're about to talk about today. But before we get into that, you were brought up Jewish.

As a young man, you said, I'm an atheist, but then

you didn't have enough faith to be an atheist. What happened? I was an atheist by the third

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