“Moses … was a powerful speaker and a man of action” (7:22 NEB) is the characterization of the Jewish lawgiver Moses by the Christian deacon and protomartyr Stephen here in the Acts of the Apostles (a title that is apparently not original), echoing Philo and Josephus (→7:22),1 as part of his capsule history of the people of Israel since the days of “our father Abraham” (7:2). It also echoes Homer’s characterization of Achilles as “both a speaker