History, literature, and society in the Book of Acts / [print]
edited by Ben Witherington.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (c)2007.
- xx, 374 pages ; 22 cm.
Originally published: 1996.
Includes bibliographies and index.
In the shadow of Thucydides How history should be written The Acts of the Apostles: monograph or bios? / Charles H. Talbert -- The preface to Acts and the historians The future of the past : Luke's vision of salvation history and its bearing on his writing of history Acts 6.1-8.4 : division or diversity? / Craig C. Hill -- James and the Gentiles (Acts 15.13-21) / Richard Bauckham -- Kerygmatic summaries in the speeches of Acts The 'script' of the scriptures in Acts : suffering as God's 'plan' (boule [transliteration]) for the world for the 'release of sins' / David P. Moessner -- Luke's social location of Paul : cultural anthropology and the status of Paul in Acts Internal repetition in Luke-Acts : contemporary narratology and Lukan historiography Luke's characterizing use of the Old Testament in the Book of Acts Editing the Good News : some synoptic lessons for the study of Acts The means of absent ends W.J. McCoy -- C.K. Barrett -- Loveday C.A. Alexander -- Jacob Jervell -- Richard Bauckham -- Jerome H. Neyrey -- Joel B. Green -- Bill T. Arnold -- Ben Witherington, III -- Wm. F. Brosend, II.
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Bible.--Acts--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Apocryphal books (New Testament)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.