This book extends scholarly debate beyond the analysis of pure historical debates and concerns to focus on the associations between Acts and the diverse contemporaneous texts, writers, and broader cultural phenomena in the second-century world of Christians, Romans, Greeks, and Jews.
1. Reading Acts in the second century: Reflections on method, history,
and desire
2. Jerusalem destroyed: The setting of Acts
3. Acts and the
apostles: Issues of leadership in the second century
4. Spec(tac)ular sights:
Mirroring in/of Acts
5. Acts of ascension: History, exaltation, and
ideological legitimation
6. Time and space travel in Luke-Acts
7. The
complexity of pairing: Reading Acts 16 with Plutarchs Parallel Lives
8.
Constructing Paul as a Christian in the Acts of the Apostles
9. Bold speech,
opposition, and philosophical imagery in Acts
10. Among the apologists?
Reading Acts with Justin Martyr
11. The Second Sophistic and the cultural
idealization of Paul in Acts
12. Reading Luke-Acts in second-century
Alexandria: From Clement to the Shadow of Apollos
Rubén R. Dupertuis, Todd Penner
