Plutarch and Luke

The evidence pointing toward the Greek historian, "Plutarch" as the author of Luke-Acts has been available for decades; some of it has been available for centuries.

Careful examination of research by biblical and historical scholars and linguists, combined with church tradition dating to the first and second centuries, leads to a compelling case for the assertion:

PLUTARCH

BASED ON HISTORIANS' REPORTS
AND HIS OWN WRITINGS, PLUTARCH:

WAS AN EDUCATED GREEK

TRAVELED IN BOURGEOIS CIRCLES

WAS AN HISTORIAN

WROTE USING ATTIC GREEK

WAS A SKILLED AND VERSATILE WRITER

USED WIDELY DIFFERING MATERIALS

COMPOSED IN DIFFERING STYLES

FOCUSED ON CHARACTERS

USED PARALLELISM

CREATED DRAMATIC SCENES

HAD KNOWLEDGE OF GOVERNMENT TITLES

USED PROLOGUES

USED "ENTRANCE, DIALOGUE, EXIT" TECHNIQUE

USED HYPER TEXTUAL TRANSLITERATION

USED EURIPIDES AS A HYPER TEXTUAL TEXT

USED HOMER AS A HYPER TEXTUAL TEXT

QUOTED EPIMENDES

USED PARABLES

USED WORDS/PHRASES ONLY ONE OTHER
CONTEMPORARY WRITER ALSO USED: LUKE

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SAME OR SIMILAR NAMES USED BY
BOTH LUKE AND PLUTARCH

DEMETRIUS

DIONYSIUS

ZEUS

HERMES

PYRRHUS

ARISTARCHUS

ALEXANDER

SECUNDUS GAIUS
(a.k.a. PLINY THE ELDER)

TROPHONIUS

THE TWIN BROTHERS (CASTOR & POLLUX)

APOLLOS OR APOLLONIUS

CITY NAMES TOO NUMEROUS TO LIST

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HISTORICAL SOURCES
REPORT THAT PLUTARCH

WAS BORN AND LIVED IN THE GREEK PROVINCE BOEOTIA

DIED IN BOEOTIA

TRAVELED EXTENSIVELY WHERE LUKE ALSO TRAVELED

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MISCELLANEOUS

HID THE SACRED NUMBER 432 IN THE STORY OF PYRRHUS
(Trench measured: 6 X 9 X 800 = 43,200)

INTRODUCTION TO "ISIS & OSIRIS" PROMISED TO TELL
CLEA THE TRUTH

TOLD A STORY OF AN ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH & QUEEN
(ISIS AND OSIRIS)

WROTE OF DANAE & ISIS (ADD MARY = DA MAR IS)

ADMIRED PYTHAGORAS/PLATO = "COMMUNAL LIVING"

DID NOT CUT HAIR

DID NOT DRINK ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

PERFORMED CEREMONIES AT THE ORACLE OF DELPHI

WOULD HAVE KNOWN OF "EGYPTIAN NAMING
CEREMONY" FROM HIS DUTIES AS PRIEST AT THE
ORACLE OF DELPHI.

LUKE

BASED ON SCHOLARS' ANALYSES
OF LUKE-ACTS, LUKE:

WAS AN EDUCATED GREEK

TRAVELED IN BOURGEOIS CIRCLES

HAD AN HISTORIAN'S MIND

FREQUENTLY SLIPPED INTO ATTIC GREEK

WAS A SKILLED AND VERSATILE WRITER

USED WIDELY DIFFERING MATERIALS

COMPOSED IN DIFFERING STYLES

FOCUSED ON CHARACTERS

USED PARALLELISM

CREATED DRAMATIC SCENES

HAD KNOWLEDGE OF GOVERNMENT TITLES

USED PROLOGUES

USED "ENTRANCE, DIALOGUE, EXIT" TECHNIQUE

USED HYPER TEXTUAL TRANSLITERATION

USED EURIPIDES AS A HYPER TEXTUAL TEXT

USED HOMER AS A HYPER TEXTUAL TEXT

QUOTED EPIMENDES

USED PARABLES

USED WORDS/PHRASES ONLY ONE OTHER CONTEMPORARY
WRITER ALSO USED: PLUTARCH

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SAME OR SIMILAR NAMES USED BY
BOTH LUKE AND PLUTARCH
(THIS IS A SHORT LIST - THERE ARE MANY OTHERS)

DEMETRIUS

DIONYSUS

ZEUS

HERMES

PYRRHUS

ARISTARCHUS

ALEXANDER

SECUNDUS

GAIUS

TROPHIMUS

THE TWIN BROTHERS (CASTOR & POLLUX)

APOLLOS OR APOLLONIUS

CITY NAMES TOO NUMEROUS TO LIST

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CHURCH TRADITION
CONTENDS THAT LUKE

WROTE LUKE-ACTS IN THE GREEK PROVINCE OF BOEOTIA

DIED IN BOEOTIA

TRAVELED EXTENSIVELY WHERE PLUTARCH ALSO TRAVELED

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MISCELLANEOUS

HID THE SACRED NUMBER 432 IN LUKE CHAPTER ONE
(Numbers in story of Mary and Elizabeth 5 X 6 X 6 X 3 X 8 =
4,320)

INTRODUCTION TO "LUKE" PROMISED TO TELL
THEOPHILUS THE TRUTH

TOLD A STORY OF AN ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH & QUEEN
(ACTS 8:27)

NAMED A DISCIPLE DAMARIS

DESCRIBED APOSTLES' "COMMUNAL LIVING"

REFERENCE TO NAZIRITE VOW "UNCUT HAIR"

REFERENCE TO NAZIRITE "NO WINE OR STRONG DRINK"

DESCRIBED CEREMONIES UNKNOWN TO JEWISH TRADITION

DESCRIBED "EGYPTIAN NAMING CEREMONY" IN STORY OF
THE BABY JESUS AND THE PROPHETESS ANNA

A question that has plagued biblical scholars and historians for centuries is why Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, aka Plutarch the Greek historian, wrote nothing about Jesus or Christianity. He lived in the midst of the most successful groups and churches determined to bring the new religion to the Greco-Roman world. He was born c. 45, just a decade or so after the crucifixion. His Pythagorean philosophy mirrored the lifestyle and doctrine of Jesus and his closest disciples. He would have been profoundly interested in the acts and movements of someone who was teaching Pythagorean philosophy to Jewish communities. He was famous during his own lifetime for writing biographies and histories of people whose lives impacted the Roman Empire and the Mediterranean world.

Plutarch's silence on Jesus and the Christian movement is deafening! And it is among the strongest of the clues that lead to his door when searching for the real identity of the man whose gospels became known as Luke-Acts.

The Sacred Knowledge of the Secret of Light as the foundation of Creation traveled the underground stream from the Egyptian mystery schools to the mystery schools of Greece until it was forced deep underground by the "Official Church" for almost two thousand years. It is the Sacred Number, 432, that identifies "Luke" and "Plutarch" as members of the neo-Pythagorean movement that became Christianity. The Victors in the second, third and forth centuries were supporters of Paul's doctrines that kept power in the hands of the government leaders and temple priests. The Victors were the enemies of the Nazarenes. With Paul as their inspiration, they created a corrupted form of the neo-Pythagorean philosophy espoused by Jesus the Nazarene. It remains "Orthodox" today.

But it is from the root of that tree, the Nazarene's Tree of Life, that Christianity had its genesis. And it is to that Tree of Life that the Christian world must return if it is to find the Salvation sought.

(This article is excerpted from Plutarch's Parable: Lux Gospel and the Axe of the Apostle by Gott.)

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