D. F. Strauss (Leben Jesu, I, 4th ed., Tübingen 1835, p. 341) accused Luke of having made a chronological error by placing a L. at the time of Tiberius who, according to Josephus (Antiq. Jud., XV, 4, 1), had been put to death by Antony at Cleopatra’s instigation. Inscriptions discovered at Abila have vindicated Luke (Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum, III, no. 4524, addenda p. 1174; cf. R. Savignac, Texte complet de l’inscription d’Abila relative à Lysanias, in Rev. bibl., [1912], pp. 533–40). Josephus himself (Antiq. Jud., XX, 7, 1) also records that «the tetrarchy of L.» was later bestowed by the Roman emperors upon Agrippa I and II.
Bibl.: E. Beurlier, Lysanias, in DB, IV, cols. 455–57. Pietro De Ambroggi