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The Book of Acts as Story: A Narrative-Critical Study is unavailable, but you can change that!

A senior New Testament scholar and teacher helps students understand the historical, literary, and theological issues of the book of Acts and introduces key concepts in the field of narrative criticism. This volume captures the message of the book of Acts by taking seriously the book’s essential character as a powerful story through which Luke communicates profound theological truth. While giving...

In Acts 13:1–15:35, then, Luke presents the first missionary journey, which involves the spread of the gospel in the eastern Mediterranean, and particularly eastern Asia Minor, on the part of Paul and Barnabas acting as emissaries of the church at Antioch. This material includes the journey proper (13:1–14:28), which is framed by the reference to the sending out by the church at Antioch and the return of Paul and Barnabas
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