In The Gospel According to Luke, Chapter 10 Verse 25 states:
Code:
There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test him and
Would the scholar of the law have been a scribe?
It is possible that he was a scribe specializing in legal theory. It is vaguely possible he was a rabbi. Luke’s Gospel is aimed at Greeks, so he might use a generalized word to refer to a general class of specialists. The emphasis is not merely on “scribe,” but on his wide knowledge of the law.
The Greek word used is νομικός (nomikos), which is defined thusly in my electronic Greek-English Lexicon (emphasis added):
νομικός, ή, όν, (also ός, όν SEG26.821 (Thrace, c.100 B.C.),** relating to laws**, αἴτια, title of work by Democritus; resting on law, ἤθη Pl.Lg.625a; conventional, ν. δίκαιον, opp. φυσικόν, Arist.EN1134b20; ν. φιλία, opp. ἠθική, ib.1162b23. Adv. -κῶς
after the manner of law, i.e. in a broad, general way, Id.Pol.1341b31.
b.
having the character of law, νομικώτεροι οἱ νόμοι Men.Rh. p.375 S.
2.
forensic, μάχαι Ep.Tit.3.9; ἀγῶνες, opp. λογικοί, ἠθικοί, Philostr.VS1.22.1; relating to points of law (opp. matters of fact), στάσις, ζήτημα, Hermog.Stat.2, 3; ν. ὀνόματα law-terms, Id.Meth.2; τὰ ν. law matters, Phld.Rh.1.37 S., Plu.Cic.26, νομική (sc. τεχνη) jurisprudence, GVI2021.3 (Amasia, i/ii A.D.), Adv. -κῶς by legal process, Id.2.533b.
II.** l****earned in the law,** Alex.39, Pl.Min.317e (Sup.); doctor of the Jewish law, Ev.Matt.22.35, al.
2. lawyer, notary, Plu.Cic.26, Gal.Libr.Ord.5, BGU326ii22 (ii A.D.).
** 3. legal adviser, assessor of a magistrate,** Mitteis Chr.372 iii 18 (ii A.D.), etc.; ν. ἄριστος CIG2787 (Aphrodisias), cf. BGU361iii2 (ii A.D.), etc.
Henry George Liddell et al., A Greek-English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), 1179.
