Bible – NT – Acts

April 2018

April 30, 2018
In Acts 8, Luke offers the first glimpse of the international scope of the gospel....

June 2017

June 30, 2017
The book of Acts ends with a sailor's yarn. Paul has appealed to Caesar, and...
June 08, 2016
Following Varro, Augustine distinguished three forms of ancient religion: The fabulous religion of the myths,...
June 07, 2016
Paul delivered a sermon in Athens (Acts 17). It's addressed to philosophers and pagan priests....

April 2016

April 26, 2016
Paul's sermons in Acts 13 and 17 both employ language connected with the theme of...
April 26, 2016
Paul's sermons in Acts 13 and 17 both employ language connected with the theme of...
April 21, 2016
Paul's criticism of idols in his Athens speech repeats philosophical commonplaces about the nature of...
April 20, 2016
MD Goulder argues that death and resurrection is the narrative pattern of Acts (Type and...
April 19, 2016
MD Goulder (Type and History in Acts) points out that the history recorded in Acts...
April 18, 2016
MD Goulder (Type and History in Acts) summarizes the complaints against Luke's history of the...
April 14, 2016
Joshua Jipp argues that Paul's Areopagus address contains both critique and propaganda, critique of Athenian...
April 14, 2016
Joshua Jipp argues that Paul's Areopagus address contains both critique and propaganda, critique of Athenian...
April 12, 2016
In an essay in the 1978 collection, Perspectives on Luke-Acts, Donald Miesner explains the chiastic...
April 12, 2016
In an essay in the 1978 collection, Perspectives on Luke-Acts, Donald Miesner explains the chiastic...
April 07, 2016
Paul's speech on the Areopagus is the second of three programmatic speeches in Acts. Robert...
April 07, 2016
Paul's speech on the Areopagus is the second of three programmatic speeches in Acts. Robert...
April 06, 2016
Robert Tannehill points out in the second volume of his Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts that...
April 06, 2016
Robert Tannehill points out in the second volume of his Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts that...
April 04, 2016
Paul's apologetic sermon in Acts 17 is often taken as a model of apostolic accommodation....

March 2016

March 21, 2016
As Paul strolls through Athens, what impresses him is not the architecture, culture, or art....
March 10, 2016
Paul's visit to Athens is nestled in the middle of a narrative sequence describing Paul's...
March 04, 2016
Rebecca Denova(Things Accomplished Among Us) provides a good summary of the complex pattern of parallelism...
March 04, 2016
Rebecca Denova(Things Accomplished Among Us) provides a good summary of the complex pattern of parallelism...

January 2015

January 26, 2015
Exodus and Acts seem to offer different accounts of Moses’ killing of the Egyptian. In Exodus,...
January 12, 2014
When Peter comes to the door of the house where the disciples are praying for...

May 2013

May 10, 2013
The story of Paul’s encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus is recounted several...
May 08, 2013
As Stephen recounts the history of Israel to his persecutors, he refers in passing to...
May 06, 2013
Jesus is tried by three courts - the Jewish Sanhedrin, the Herodian, and the Roman....

April 2013

April 23, 2013
The Jerusalem Council described in Acts 15 presents “a winning picture of open-ended discussion, leading...
April 01, 2013
Summing up a survey of the Bible’s use of combat myths, Jon Levenson ( Creation...
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