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Dick Ahlstrom. Tue Oct 16 2001 - 01:00. DNA fingerprinting has been used to prove that St Luke really is who he claims to be. Analysis of bones allegedly belonging to the evangelist writer of the ...
Luke the Evangelist [a] is one of the Four Evangelists —the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels. The Early Church Fathers ascribed to him authorship of both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. Prominent figures in early Christianity such as Jerome and Eusebius later reaffirmed his authorship, although a ...
- 18 October
- Padua, Italy
- Gospel of Luke, Acts of the Apostles
In work that highlights the value of using genetic data to confirm history, molecular biologists have analyzed ancient DNA to test whether remains attributed to the evangelist Luke do in fact ...
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Oct 16, 2001 · Because ancient DNA molecules tend to be damaged, after DNA extraction a 360-bp segment of the hypervariable region I of the mitochondrial genome was typed by amplifying 5 short overlapping fragments, hereafter designated as amplicons 1–5. A total of 39 sequences were obtained (31 initially, plus 8 of amplicon 3 in a second round of experiments).
Nov 6, 2001 · Abstract. Historical sources indicate that the evangelist Luke was born in Syria, died in Greece, and then his body was transferred to Constantinople, and from there to Padua, Italy. To understand whether there is any biological evidence supporting a Syrian origin of the Padua body traditionally attributed to Luke, or a replacement in Greece or ...
- Cristiano Vernesi, Giulietta Di Benedetto, David Caramelli, Erica Secchieri, Lucia Simoni, Emile Kat...
- 10.1073/pnas.211540498
- 2001
- 2001/11/11
DNA test confirms Lukas' Syrian ancestry. The physician Luke, better known as the biblical author of the Gospel of Luke, was born in Antioch, in the Roman province of Syria. Historical tradition records his death in Thebes around 150 AD. His body was first buried in Constantinople. Later it was brought to Padua in Italy.
Here, we collected DNA samples from three living males of the House ... (Y-chr) haplogroup as performed for the relics of Evangelist Luke.16
