Can we trust what we read in history books? What even qualifies as history, and how does the approach of Luke compare with other ancient historians such as Homer, Herodotus, Livy, or Thucydides?
One of the most treasured classics of the ancient world is Homer’s Iliad, which tells the story of the Trojan War. Homer lived some 800 years before the time of Christ, while the Trojan War he narrat…