When John the Baptist began his ministry, he proclaimed, “The axe is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire” (Luke 3:9). The … Continue reading How to Live at the End of Time
The Acts of the Apostles ends on an ironic note. Four years elapse between Acts 21 and 28, and Paul experiences, in succession, riot, arrest, attempted flogging, Sanhedrin hearing, attempted assassination, night flight under armed guard, multiple Roman hearings, attempted … Continue reading Boldly and Without Hindrance | Influence Magazine
The thesis of Darrell L. Bock’s Acts, part of the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (BECNT) series, is that the author of Acts is “a historian in the ancient mold, whose historiography is rooted more in Jewish models … Continue reading Acts (BECNT) | Book Review
In the Prolegomenon to his four-volume commentary on Acts, Craig S. Keener writes, “The primary focus [of this commentary] is what the text meant to its first audience. Its primary contributions lie in often providing further documentation for, and sometimes … Continue reading Acts: An Exegetical Commentary, Volume 1 | Book Review
In the nineteenth century, Ferdinand Christian Baur founded the so-called “Tubingen School” of New Testament interpretation. Using the Hegelian dialectic of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, Baur argued that Luke synthesized the thesis of Petrine Jewish Christianity with the antithesis of Pauline Gentile Christianity … Continue reading Acts: Brazos Theologial Commentary on the Bible | Book Review
Is The Acts of the Apostles a source of authentic historical information about earliest Christianity? Colin J. Hemer answers that question affirmatively in The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History, published after his untimely 1987 death and … Continue reading The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History | Book Review
Lydia McGrew, Hidden in Plain View: Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels and Acts (Chillicothe, Ohio: DeWard, 2017). Are the Gospels and the Book of Acts historically reliable? Its authors certainly thought so. For example, Luke stated that his Gospel narrated … Continue reading Review of ‘Hidden in Plain View’ by Lydia McGrew
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