Little can be known for certain regarding the identity of the author of Acts; what is clear is that the text presents the early Christian movement, known as “the Way,” within the context of first-century Judaism(s), and that first-century Judaism(s), as well as the spread of the Christian movement, must be understood within the larger first-century Greco-Roman context. In his composition of Acts, Luke demonstrated command of a number of rhetorical conventions and techniques, drew on various cultural