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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...

argued, in the eschatological self-understanding of the early Jerusalem church, a body of elders could appropriately complement the Twelve in the leadership of the church. The second interpretation of the elders is that of Campbell, who argues that the Twelve themselves were also known as the elders. He thinks that the composition of the Twelve gradually changed, as members of the original Twelve died or left Jerusalem and were replaced by others.52 But the term ‘elder’ was used equally of original
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