Although the most likely candidate for the authorship of Luke-Acts is Luke the physician and sometime companion of Paul,67 the author himself has not included his name within the Gospel itself and the title, “according to Luke,” was added by others only decades later. This suggests that the identity of the author is not critical to our reading of the Gospel; as a consequence, for example, in our reading of the Gospel of Luke we will look elsewhere than to Luke’s probable vocation as a physician to