Putting a brief note here for a new pub in print:
Duncan, Mike. “The Danger of Using Style to Determine Authorship: The Case of Luke and Acts,” In Style and the Future of Composition Studies, Eds. Paul Butler, Star Vanguri, and Brian Ray. Utah State UP, 2020.
This chapter has a long backstory. I wrote a longer draft around 2010 about the curious differences between the beginnings of Luke and Acts and sent it to a journal that trashed it pretty good with a single paragraph peer review. I was much younger and less confident then, and I had enough irons in the fire that I just decided to trunk it for the duration.
When this collection was announced, I wanted to take part, but I didn’t have anything lying around that I thought would fit, or anything I could start from nothing and easily meet the deadline.
Then I realized that old trunk article could be re-framed for the better around a stylistic question, given the whole argument that Luke and Acts were written by the same author is based on dodgy stylometric analysis. But this would require cutting it from 10000 words to 5000 words – which I did.