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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...
The phrase ‘historical monograph’ is a modern one with some basis in ancient terminology. In modern discussion the phrase is commonly applied to ancient historical writings which deal with a limited issue or period without regard to the length of the books themselves. Thus ‘Sallust’s first two works’ have been described as ‘monographs concerned with limited themes of special interest’.13 Again, the task of the potential writer of a historical monograph has been
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