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Almost 70 years ago, working under the assumption of an essentially exclusive Aramaic model, H. F. D. Sparks published a short but influential article, "The Semitisms of St. Luke."1 He began by observing that both in number and in character the Semitisms of Mark and Matthew are decidedly different from those of Luke: If we compare St. Luke with the other Synoptists, we are forced to admit that "subject matter" is very far from being a complete explanation; for not only do certain of the characteristic Semitic expressions, which all three share, occur with greater frequency in St. Luke, but there are in addition a whole host of peculiarly Lukan Semitisms, that is, constructions and phrases, sometimes complete sentences, which, awkward in Greek, are normal and idiomatic in Semitic.2

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