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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 ...
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
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
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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 ...
Feb 29, 2008 · This study had been done before I started blogging, but I recently noticed that the relics of St. Luke the Evangelist had been subjected to DNA analysis. The article is: Cristiano Vernesi et al., “Genetic characterization of the body attributed to the evangelist Luke,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98 (2001): 13460–13463; on-line: 12001 Oct 13416. Here is the abstract: Historical sources ...
the Padua body (PB) for DNA typing provides an opportunity to test the degree to which molecular biology could confirm history by assigning the remains of a single individual to a geographic region of origin. The marble sarcophagus containing the body traditionally attributed to Luke was opened September 17, 1998, by a committee headed by V.T.W.M.
Oct 16, 2001 · Genetic characterization of the body attributed to the evangelist Luke Cristiano Vernesi , Giulietta Di Benedetto , David Caramelli , +6 , Erica Secchieri , Lucia Simoni , Emile Katti , Patrizia Malaspina , Andrea Novelletto , Vito Terribile Wiel Marin , and Guido Barbujani -6 Authors Info & Affiliations
