The Book of Acts in Its Palestinian Setting (1995 Bauckham), edited volume

The Book of Acts in Its Palestinian Setting (1995) is a volume edited by Richard Bauckham.

Editions and translations

Published in Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995.

Table of contents

• The location of cultures in Second Temple Palestine / Tessa Rajak

• Acts and Roman policy in Judaea / David W.J. Gill

• The geography of Palestine in Acts / Martin Hengel

• Palestinian Jewish personal names in Acts / Margaret H. Williams

• Chief priests, Sadducees, Pharisees and Sanhedrin in Acts / Steve Mason

• Synagogues in Jerusalem / Rainer Riesner

• The composition of the Jerusalem church / David A. Fiensy

• The population size of Jerusalem and the numerical growth of the Jerusalem church / Wolfgang Reinhardt

• Jewish prayer literature and the Jerusalem church in Acts / Daniel K. Falk

• The cenacle--topographical setting for Acts 2:44-45 / Jerome Murphy-O'Connor

• The Palestinian cultural context of earliest Christian community of goods / Brian Capper

• Jewish activity against Christians in Palestine according to Acts / Ernst Bammel

• Paul's pre-Christian career according to Acts / Simon Légasse

• Peter and Ben Stada in Lydda / Joshua Schwartz

• James and the Jerusalem church / Richard Bauckham

External links

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