Question: Who wrote the books of luke and acts?

context: The traditional view is that the Gospel of Luke and Acts were written by the physician Luke, a companion of Paul. Many scholars believe him to be a Gentile Christian, though some scholars think Luke was a Hellenic Jew. This Luke is mentioned in Paul's Epistle to Philemon (v.24), and in two other epistles which are traditionally ascribed to Paul (Colossians 4:14 and 2 Timothy 4:11).
question: Who wrote the books of luke and acts according to the traditional view?
short_answers: Luke the physician
Luke
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question: Who wrote the books of luke and acts according to the critical views?
short_answers: Anonymous non-eyewitness
context: The traditional view is that the Gospel of Luke and Acts were written by the physician Luke, a companion of Paul. Many scholars believe him to be a Gentile Christian, though some scholars think Luke was a Hellenic Jew. This Luke is mentioned in Paul's Epistle to Philemon (v.24), and in two other epistles which are traditionally ascribed to Paul (Colossians 4:14 and 2 Timothy 4:11).
question: Who wrote the books of luke and acts according to the traditional view?
short_answers: Luke the physician
Luke
context: No context provided
question: Who wrote the books of luke and acts according to the critical view?
short_answers: Anonymous non-eyewitness

Answer: There are several views on who wrote the books of Luke and Acts. According to the traditional view, they were written by the physician Luke. According to the critical views, they were written by an anonymous non-eyewitness who was not an eyewitness of any of the events he described and who had no eyewitness sources or were written by an anonymous writer or the traditional Luke using existing written sources such as a travelogue by an eyewitness.