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Like Ben Witherington's previous commentary Conflict and Community in Corinth , this commentary breaks fresh ground in providing a detailed social and rhetorical analysis of the book of Acts. Written in a readable style, with more detailed interaction with scholarly discussion found in the various excursuses, this commentary draws on the best new insights from a number of disciplines (narratological studies of Luke-Acts, archaeological and social scientific study of the New Testament, rhetorical analysis of Acts, comparative studies in ancient historiography) to provide the reader with the benefits of recent innovative ways of analyzing the text of Acts. In addition there is detailed attention to major theological and historical issues, including the question of the relationship of Acts to the Pauline letters, the question of early Christian history and how the church grew and developed, the relationship between early Judaism and early Christianity, and the relationship between Christianity and the officials of the Roman Empire. Acts is seen as a historical monograph with affinities with the approaches of serious Greek historians such as Thucydides and Polybius in terms of methodol

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Author

Ben Witherington III

Publisher

Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. ; Carlisle, U.K.: Paternoster Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802845016

Category

reference

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Reference

Rating

4.36 / 5 (105 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14