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In order to understand Luke's political vision, we have first to understand the complex political situation in which Acts is written. This becomes clear in the trial of Paul, where Paul stands before a Roman tribunal but addresses a dispute arising within the Jewish community. Despite his protestations of innocence under Roman law, Paul's response embodies an inclusive political vision that is profoundly subversive of the imperial order. Keywords Acts, Luke, Paul, Roman Empire, Apologia, Political, Gospel, Introduction The question about Luke's political vision is generally posed in terms of his attitude to the dominant political reality of his day: the Roman Empire. Is Luke pro-Roman or [...]

It is no coincidence that the church in Luke's narrative bore the nickname 'The Way.' The Evangelist's 'mental map' of the early church's development is more fluid and open than the hierarchical model of later centuries., The perception that we need a map to understand Luke's history of the church is hardly new. Every Sunday School Bible has its map of the 'Missionary Journeys of Saint [...]

The presentation of the miraculous and supernatural in the narrative of Acts creates the presumption of a shared religious experience that makes it difficult to frame under the fact or fiction categories of Greek literature. The debate on Acts is compounded by the blurring of the distinctions between fact and fiction in the genre of history during the hellenistic and Roman periods. Acts' characters, setting and stories allude to distant lands which are usually allocated to fiction. However, it has a contemporary and realistic plot and, does not have the romantic closure of fiction novels.

Torah in the Mouth: Writing and Oral Tradition in Palestinian Judaism, 200 BCE-400 CE, by Martin S. Jaffee. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 242 pp. $49.95. Jaffee's detailed and [...]

Reinmuth's careful study (originally a Jena Habilitationsschrift) sets itself a double task. The first is to rescue Pseudo-Philo's work from a 'shadow existence' of unjust neglect on the part of [...]

The Major part of this study of the |publicans' of the synoptic tradition is devoted to an exhaustive analysis of the telonai of the Graeco-Roman world. Herrenbruck presents a wealth [...]

Women in the Acts of the Apostles. A Feminist Liberation Perspective. By Ivoni Richter Reimer. Translated by Linda M. Maloney. Pp. xxvi + 302. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995. ISBN 0 [...]

O Fearghail is primarily concerned with the thematic structures of Luke-Acts. The first four chapters of the Gospel are treated as a preparatory narrative introduction to the whole work, anticipating [...]