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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...

survey of salvation history (Acts 7:2–53), though presented not in narrative but in a speech, bears comparison with the ‘archaeology’ of Sallust (Cat. 5.9–13.5).77 The history of an incipient religious movement is an unprecedented subject for an ancient monograph. But the way has been prepared by the religious content of the Hellenistic Jewish historical monographs. And the combination of length, scope, focus and internal literary features indicates that Acts deserves consideration as a short historical
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