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Henry J. Cadbury, The Style and Literary Method of Luke (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1920), p. 50.

The quotation is taken from Hobart’s cumbersome subtitle to The Medical Language of St. Luke: A Proof from Internal Evidence that “The Gospel according to St. Luke” and “The Acts of the Apostles” Were Written by the Same Person, and that the Writer was a Medical Man (1882; reprint, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1954). Hobart’s thesis was supported by the eminent scholar Adolf von Harnack (Luke the Physician, trans. J.R. Wilkinson [New York: Putnam, 1909]).

See especially John Knox, Chapters in a Life of Paul, revised by the author and edited with introduction by D. R. A. Hare (Macon, GA: Mercer Univ. Press, 1987), and Paul Vielhauer, “On the ‘Paulinism’ of Acts,” in Studies in Luke-Acts: Essays Presented in Honor of Paul Schubert, ed. Leander E. Keck and J. Louis Martyn (Nashville: Abingdon, 1966), pp. 33–50.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3.14.1.

See esp. Charles H. Talbert, Literary Patterns, Theological Themes, and the Genre of Luke-Acts, Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series (SBLMS) 20 (Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1974); I. Howard Marshall, “Acts and the ‘Former Treatise,’” The Book of Acts in Its Ancient Literary Setting (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1993), pp. 163–182.

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3.14.1.

The article is at http://www.anglicanmediasydney.asn.au/pwb/ntwright_perspective.htm. The relevant work of my own is chapter 7 of What Saint Paul Really Said (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1997).

Uncovering the wing of the coat or cloak means having incestuous relations (see Deuteronomy 23:1 and 27:20 in the NJPS version), while taking shelter under the wing of a man’s (or God’s) coat or cloak refers to marriage or symbolic marriage (see Ezekiel 16:8).