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Excerpt from The Composition and Date of Acts The hypothesis of a Semitic source ( or source) underlying more or less of the first half of Acts has commended itself to a few scholars. Thus Harnack, Lukas der Arst, 1906, p. 84: " Es spricht Wichtiges dafur, dass Lukas in der ersten Ha lfte der Acta eine aramaische Quelle ubersetzt und benutzt hat, aber schlagend kann die Annahme nicht widerlegt werden, dass er lediglich auf mundlichen Mitteilungen fusst, Vollends unsicher ist es, welchen Umfang die Quellegehabt hat und ob es uberhaupt eine einzige quelle gewesen ist." Similarly in his Apostelgeschichte, 1908, pp. 138, 186. Wendt, Die Apostelgeschichle, 1913, p. 16 says: " Im Anschluss an Nestle StKr 1896 S. 102 ff. nimmt [Blass] die Bearbeitung einer aramaischen Quelle im ersten Teile der Apostelgeschichte an. Die in Diesem ersten Teile haufiger als im zweiten vorliegenden Aramaismen werden von ihm als Beweis hierfur betrachtet (evang. sec. Luc., 1897, p. vi, xxi, ss.)." See also Blass' very meager statement in his Philology of the Gospels (1898), 141, 193 f., 201, of his somewhat hastily conceived theory according to which Luke followed an Aramaic source in the first twelve chapters of Acts. But so far as I am aware, no one has ever attempted to point out speciffically Aramaic locutions in Acts. Nor has the search for Semitisms, of whatever sort, hitherto resulted in any fruitful discovery, A few doubtful examples have been adduced in support of still more doubtful conclusions; there has been no effort to collect and examine the material of this nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."