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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...

19:21, which in fact outlines the shape of the remainder of the book: Paul goes first to Jerusalem, and on to Rome. However, Paul does not arrive until almost the end of the book (28:14). Luke describes many of the intervening incidents in considerable detail: hearings and other official procedures (21:40–22:21; 22:30–23:10; 23:23–35; 24:1–22; 25:1–12; 25:23–26:31); threats to Paul’s life (23:12–22; 25:3–5; see also 27:30–32, 42–43); delays (24:23–27); the storm and shipwreck (27:13–44). One of Luke’s
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