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Dating Acts in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts

Dating Acts in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567698582
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 22/09/2022
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm

There has been consistent apathy in recent years with regard to the long-standing debate surrounding the date of Acts. While the so-called majority of scholars over the past century have been lulled into thinking that Acts was written between 70 and 90 CE, the vast majority of recent scholarship is unanimously adamant that this middle-range date is a convenient, political compromise. Karl Armstrong argues that a large part of the problem relates to a remarkable neglect of historical, textual, and source-critical matters. Compounding the problem further are the methodological flaws among the approaches to the middle and late date of Acts.

Armstrong thus demonstrates that a historiographical approach to the debate offers a strong framework for evaluating primary and secondary sources relating to the book of Acts. By using a historiographical approach, along with the support of modern principles of textual criticism and linguistics, the historical context of Acts is determined to be concurrent with a date of 62–63 CE.

Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: A New Plea for an Early Date Of Acts
Chapter 2: A Historiographical Approach to the Date Of Acts
Chapter 3: The Date of Acts and its Sources
Chapter 4: The Sources of Acts: Paul's Letters and the Works of Josephus
Chapter 5: The Un-Enigmatic End of Acts
Chapter 6: The End of Acts and the Jewish Response
Chapter 7: The End of Acts and the Comparable Age of its Variants
Chapter 8: Acts in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Historical Context
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Appendix: The Manuscript Record for Acts 28:11–31
Bibliography

Dr. Karl Leslie Armstrong

Karl L. Armstrong received his PhD (Christian Theology) from McMaster Divinity College, Canada.

Armstrong has written a major work of scholarship defending the early date for Acts, and he has given weight to seeing the terminus of the events described in the text as representing the limits of the author's knowledge of events that had transpired. * Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies * Armstrong's work takes seriously the historical content of Acts and persistently pursues the difficult problems that are too often dismissed as intractable. * ARYS: Antiguedad: Religiones y Sociedades *

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