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like other literature in the ancient world.
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The Gospel of Luke is not a biography
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but it could have been thought of as a life.
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In fact, the Greek word for life is bios,
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where we get biology.
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Bios could be the name of genre of literature
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that told about some great man.
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We separate it from biography because
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it doesn't have the same kind of concerns that a modern biography does.
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It seems like he knows that for the Gospel of Luke anyway
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he's writing a bios of Jesus, a life of Jesus.
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How do we know that?