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Dating Acts in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts Dr. Karl Leslie Armstrong

Dating Acts in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts By Dr. Karl Leslie Armstrong

Dating Acts in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts by Dr. Karl Leslie Armstrong


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Dating Acts in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts Summary

Dating Acts in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts by Dr. Karl Leslie Armstrong

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.

Dating Acts in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts Reviews

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Armstrong's work takes seriously the historical content of Acts and persistently pursues the difficult problems that are too often dismissed as intractable.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 *

About Dr. Karl Leslie Armstrong

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

Table of Contents

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

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NLS9780567698582
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Dating Acts in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts by Dr. Karl Leslie Armstrong
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2022-09-22
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