World upside down reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman age / [electronic resource] :
C. Kavin Rowe.
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010.
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
No longer can Acts be seen as a simple apologia that articulates Christianity's harmlessness vis-a-vis Rome. Rather, in its attempt to form communities that witness to God's apocalypse author Kavin Rowe argues, Luke's second volume is a highly charged and theologically sophisticated political document.
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Bible.--N.T.--Acts--Criticism, interpretation, etc.