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The third of IVP’s critically acclaimed series of dictionaries of the New Testament provides focused study on the often-neglected portions of the New Testament: Acts, Hebrews, the General Epistles and Revelation. Furthermore, its scope goes beyond the life of the New Testament church to include the work of the apostolic fathers and early Christianity up through the middle of the second century. ...

. By the Scriptures of Israel, we mean the Septuagint, and especially Deuteronomy, the Psalms and Isaiah, for these are the authoritative texts that appear most in Acts. Two factors characterize the use of the Scriptures by God’s spokespersons in Acts. First, characters within Acts are concerned to show that what has happened with Jesus and what is happening with the movement of those who name him as Lord are continuous with the Scriptures. Second and inseparably related, however,