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The approach of this commentary is to ask how ancient Mediterranean auditors would have heard Acts when it was read in their presence. To be successful Talbert divides this approach into two parts: how Acts would have been heard in its precanonical context and in its canonical context. He examines Acts thematically from the perspective of preparing for the church’s Mission to fulfilling the...

(b. Erubin 53a, b; b. Megilla 24b), speaking in the language of each auditor (vv. 6–8). The homelands of those now resident in Jerusalem are mentioned in a fashion like the tables of nations of the Jewish Diaspora, found in writers like Philo (e.g., Legation to Gaius 281–83) and Josephus (e.g., Antiquities 1.6.1–4 §§ 122–47, which contains 50 percent of the names in Acts 2:9–11, including Judea, which has often been thought to be out of place in vv. 9–11). The clear-cut emphasis of this subunit is
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