New Testament letter composed under the guise of a presumably lost letter of the Apostle Paul, the Epistle to the Laodiceans. The books of the New Testament were all or nearly all written by Jewish Christians—that is, Jewish disciples of Christ, who lived in the Roman Empire, and under Roman occupation. Luke, who wrote the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts, is frequently thought of as an exception; scholars are divided as to whether Luke was a Gentile or a Hellenistic Jew. A few scholars identify the author of the Gospel of Mark as probably a Gentile, and similarly for
John Lightfoot of Claudius)" was published later that year. In 1647 came "The Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the Old Testament", followed in 1655 by "The Harmony, Chronicle, and Order of the New Testament", inscribed to Cromwell. He helped Brian Walton with the "Polyglot Bible" (1657). His own best-known work was the "Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae", in which the volume relating to the Gospel of Matthew appeared in 1658, that relating to the Gospel of Mark in 1663, and those relating to 1 Corinthians, John and Luke, in 1664, 1671 and 1674 respectively. The "Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae impensae in Acta Apostolorum