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Luke and Scripture: The Function of Sacred Tradition in Luke-Acts is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Luke and Scripture, Craig A. Evans and James A. Sanders explore how the author of the third Gospel and Acts understood the nature and function of Scripture. Throughout this collection of exploratory studies, Evans and Sanders present a variety of fresh insights into key passages from Luke and Acts, based on extensive research on ancient Jewish tradition. Clear and concise, this volume will aid...

The prominence of the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts is well known.1 Its principal purpose seems to be to show that the gospel is truly of divine origin, meets with divine approval, and is advanced by divine agency. Several passages in Acts make this quite clear. Through the Holy Spirit the risen Christ commands his Apostles (Acts 1:2). They are to wait in Jerusalem until they receive the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:5, 8). When the Holy Spirit comes upon the Apostles
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