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The diversity of material in the Book of Acts demands a variety of exegetical tools and strategies. Since speeches constitute over 30% of the text, the interpreter must be adept at handling discourse as well as narrative. Interpreting the Book of Acts presents the fruit of the author’s thirty–year reflection on the Lukan corpus. With a sure hand he guides the reader through numerous approaches...

1 The Purpose of Acts It is common sense to say that the interpretation of a book is helped by a knowledge of why the book was written. Obscure passages in some literary works can be nudged towards clarity by a recollection of the overall purpose of the work. The relation of a given segment to the whole unfolds when seen within a purposeful framework. Unfortunately, this information is not always available to us, especially in the case of ancient works. The task of determining the purpose of
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