01964nam a2200337 a 4500 20260119070907.0 2023-03-14 08:28:18 0802824331 1 0 eng 226.6067 T374-S50 Winter, Bruce W. Editor The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting Bruce W. Winter vol.1 Ancient literary setting U.S.A William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 1993 479tr. Hardcover 24cm The composition of Acts is discussed beside the writing of ancient literary monographs and intellectual biographies. Recent epigraphic and papyrological discoveries also help illumine the text of Acts. Archaeological fieldwork, especially in Greece and Asia Minor, has yielded valuable information about the local setting of Acts and the religious life of urban communities in the Roman Empire. These volumes draw on the best of this research to elucidate the Book of Acts against the background of activity in which early Christianity was born. The Book of Acts in Its Ancient Literary Setting is the first volume in this groundbreaking series. The book includes fourteen chapters devoted to the literary framework that undergirds the Book of Acts. Topics include the text as an historical monograph, ancient rhetoric and speeches, the Pauline corpus, biblical history, subsequent ecclesiastical histories, and modern literary method. All of these chapters arise out of a consultation by the project's scholars at Cambridge in March 1993 Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Bible. Acts Criticism, interpretation, etc https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2023/3/14/3227.jpg Cover Image Huỳnh Hà Hồng Phúc 220726 NHH 10251 10251 0 0 0 0 TVCD TVCD 2026-01-20 0.00 0 TVCD-10251 0.00 BK