Evidence item · v0.74
Dating of Luke–Acts relative to Paul (cautious)
E-HIST-LUKE-ACTS-DATING
Visual overview: Dating of Luke-Acts relative to Paul visual overview
Classification
- Evidence ID
- E-HIST-LUKE-ACTS-DATING
- Corpus/version
- v0.74
- Stage
- stage4
- Category
- New Testament Dating / Chronology
- Major category
- History
- Sub-category
- Luke-Acts / Pauline Chronology
- BF status
- ready
- Scoring label
- Scored row with active Bayes factors
Navigation
Primary Datum
Datum: Acts ends without Paul’s death; some argue for an earlier date, others for a literary cutoff.
Scoring / Hypothesis Pressure
| Hypothesis | log10BF | Min | Max | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
H-ALT-LEGEND | -0.03 | -0.06 | 0 | Earlier dating would modestly narrow the window for late legendary development, but literary explanations of Acts ending keep the penalty small. |
H-SCRIPTURE-HIST-EMBEDDEDNESS | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.09 | Dating of Luke–Acts relative to Paul (cautious) is historical/material culture support. It belongs under Scripture historical embeddedness rather than direct Christ-identity proof. |
Dependency / Cap Metadata
- dependency_cluster_id
- new_testament_historical_synchronisms
- dependency_cluster_role
- sibling_support
- dependency_cluster
- new_testament_historical_synchronisms
- dependency_role
- sibling_support
- cap_profile
- support_layer_small
- evidence_function
- support_layer
- directness
- supporting
Counter-Pressure
- title
- Dating of Luke–Acts relative to Paul (cautious) is a bounded signal, not a standalone proof.
- text
- The strongest caution is overuse. Synchronisms are support-layer evidence. They do not, by themselves, prove miracles, Resurrection, or Christ as Logos. This row should be read inside its dependency family, not treated as an isolated demonstration of God, Christ, or the final synthesis.
- path
- Start with what the row actually shows, then name what it does not show. Use it to show that the texts are not floating myth, then keep the theological claim tied to stronger direct rows.
Apologetic Note
- label
- Apologetic leverage
- title
- Dating of Luke-Acts relative to Paul raises the cost of thin alternatives.
- key point
- Acts ends without Paul's death; some argue for an earlier date, others for a literary cutoff. The leverage is not one isolated fact, but the way this item joins public proclamation, witness structure, Jerusalem memory, and costly confession.
- conversation move
- Ask the rival explanation to account for the whole pattern instead of one convenient fragment. A theory may explain grief, mistake, or legend in the abstract and still fail the actual historical cluster.
- caveat
- Do not call this single row proof. It is a bounded clue whose force grows when read with the whole resurrection field.
Caveats / Notes
- Cap notes
- Historical/material synchronism support layer; primarily supports Scripture historical embeddedness and alternative-pressure constraints.
- Cap profile note
- Support-layer rows stay small even when visible and inspectable.
- Cluster note
- Acts reliability / chronology cluster; do not stack as fully independent from E-HIST-PAULINE-CHRONOLOGY or other Acts synchronism items.
- Scoring note
- Batch 1 DATA-approved modest historical/background scoring; no resurrection BF applied.
- Governance note
- Moved direct H-CHRIST-IDENTITY material-culture weight to H-SCRIPTURE-HIST-EMBEDDEDNESS support.
Citations
- Colin Hemer (1990). The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History.
- Pervo, R. (2006). Dating Acts.
Recommended Citation
The Signal Evidence Dataset, "Dating of Luke–Acts relative to Paul (cautious)," Evidence ID: E-HIST-LUKE-ACTS-DATING, Version 0.74. Accessed [access date]. https://logos-signal.org/evidence/E-HIST-LUKE-ACTS-DATING/
Machine-Readable Source
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