circles. For example, Josephus dedicated his Jewish Antiquities, his Autobiography, and his two volumes Against Apion to a patron named Epaphroditus. At the beginning of the first volume Against Apion, he addresses him as “Epaphroditus, most excellent of men”;7 and he introduces the second volume of the same work with the words: “By means of the former volume, my most honored Epaphroditus,8 I have demonstrated our antiquity.” These opening words are remarkably similar to those of Luke’s second volume.