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The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting, vol. 1: Ancient Literary Setting includes fourteen chapters devoted to the literary framework that undergirds the Book of Acts. Topics include the text as historical monograph, ancient rhetoric and speeches, the Pauline corpus, biblical history, subsequent ecclesiastical histories, and modern literary method. All of these chapters arise out of a...

tradition. In scientific prefaces, received ‘tradition’ is one of the components of the ‘author’s qualifications’ (esp. pp. 82–85). But such authorial claims imply that the main content of their books will be an account of the received tradition (e.g., p. 82). In the gospel preface (Lk. 1:2), the author claims to be the recipient of tradition (pp. 116–117). And the content of both Luke and Acts may be regarded as an account of traditional material (pp. 203–06). This analysis appears to provide a
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