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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Volume 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

but the further expansion of the church. This appears immediately in 15:35, but is in fact the theme of the rest of the book. Thus Acts 15 supplies the key to the arrangement and movement of the book as a whole. ‘Luc place le récit, tel qu’il l’a recomposé, au centre de l’activité missionaire de Paul’ (Taylor 5:222). Haenchen saw the account of the Council as a Lucan composition. It was not indeed pure fiction; Luke wrote on the basis of traditions, which are not further defined. With this view Bultmann
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