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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...

Ethiopia in antiquity was not modern Ethiopia but what is now called Sudan. The biblical tradition gives a certain picture of the place. Ethiopia was a remote and distant land (Ezek 29:10; Esth 1:1; 8:9), renowned for its wealth (Job 28:19; Isa 45:14) and its military prowess (2 Kgs 19:9; 2 Chr 14:9–13; Isa 37:9; Jer 46:9). The Ethiopians were a dark-complexioned people (Jer 13:23; cf. Herodotus 3.20; Philostratus, Life of Apollonius 6.1), one of the wicked nations of the world (Isa 20:3–5; 43:3;
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