This is the first volume in the 6-volume series on The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting focuses particularly on the literary framework that undergirds Acts. The 14 articles, all written by well-known historians and biblical scholars such as I. Howard Marshall, David Wenham, Philip E. Satterthwaite, Alanna Nobbs, and others, consider in turn the text as historical monograph, ancient rhetoric and speech, the Pauline corpus, biblical history, subsequent ecclesiastical histories, and modern literary method. In this fresh mix of approaches, Acts emerges from its isolation into a world of contemporary rhetoric and recording.
