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The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting, Volume 4: The Book of Acts in Its Palestinian Setting is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting, vol. 4: Palestinian Setting is devoted to a series of studies of those parts of the narrative of Acts that are specifically set in Palestine. The geographical, political, cultural, social, and religious aspects of first-century Jewish Palestine are all explored in order to throw light on Luke’s account of the Palestinian origins of early...

such letters were regularly sent,29 as more general references to communications from the Temple authorities to the Diaspora on calendrical and other matters confirm (m. Rosh. Hash. 1:3–4; Acts 28:21). This tradition of direction and communication from the centre is the background to the letter in Acts 15:23–29, which communicates a major halakhic decision of the Jerusalem Christian leadership, assumed to have universal authority on such a matter, to (in this case) Gentile members of churches in
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