The Acts of the Apostles
Subtitle: a socio-rhetorical commentary
By: Ben Witherington III.
Publisher: W.B. Eerdmans Pub.; Paternoster Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich; Carlisle, U.K
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 874
ISBN-13: 9780802845016; 9780853648864
Copyright date: 1998
Subjects: Bible. N.T. Acts -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Bible. N.T. Acts -- Socio-rhetorical criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xiii-xlviii) and indexes.
"First published 1998 jointly in the United States by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company and in the U.K. by Paternoster Press" - t.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: The Acts of the Apostles : an introduction.; title: Acts and the question of genre; title: Luke-Acts and rhetoric; title: Acts : authorship, date, and audience; title: The text of Acts; title: The structure, theology, and purposes of Luke-Acts; title: Acts chronology; title: Pauline chronology : the Galatian data; title: Acts and hermeneutics; title: The commentary. Prologue and recapitulation (Acts 1:1-14); title: The rhetoric of replacement (Acts 1:15-26); title: Pentecost : the medium, the message, and the manifestations (Acts 2:1-47); title: The mighty work, the mighy Word, the mighty ones (Acts 3:1-4:22); title: Prayer, possessions, persecution, and proclamation (Acts 4:23-8:3); title: Philip on the fringes of Judaism (Acts 8:4-40); title: Saul as the salient Jewish convert (Acts 9:1-31); title: The Petrine passages (Acts 9:32-11:18); title: The Antioch chronicles (Acts 11:19-15:35); title: Making a second effort : the second missionary journey (Acts 15:36-18:23); title: The third wave : the last missionary efforts (Acts 18:24-21:16); title: The trials of Paul (Acts 21:17-26:32); title: The journey to Rome (Acts 27:1-28:12); title: All roads lead to ... (Acts 28:12-31); title: Appendix 1 : Internal clues of the earliness of Galatians; title: Appendix 2 : Salvation and health in Christian antiquity : the soteriology of Luke-Acts in its first-century setting; title: Map of Paul's missionary journeys