patristic comments, see the ACCS volume edited by Francis Martin (2006). Well worth skimming is the book by Dennis E. Johnson, The Message of Acts in the History of Redemption (P&R, 1997). One need not agree with every line to see how astutely Johnson reads Acts within a canonical framework. The posthumously published work of Colin J. Hemer, The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History (originally in the WUNT series, published by Mohr Siebeck, then reprinted by Eisenbrauns, 1989), is a
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