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Reading Acts: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

vicissitudes of Fortune by describing what had befallen others (e.g., 1.35–36; 2.35.5ff.). Moreover, Josephus, in his Antiquities, shares in this cultural belief, although as a Jew he would have viewed the divine necessity as deriving from the personal will of God, who is a living person and not a neutral necessity (e.g., 10.8.2–3 § 142). Nevertheless, this was but the background against which he pursued his aim: to legitimate the Jews by an appeal to their antiquity. So when one recognizes that
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