Engaging Early Christian History

Chapter 1 Reading Acts in the Second Century: Reflections on Method, History, and Desire, Todd Penner; Chapter 2 Jerusalem Destroyed: the Setting of Acts, Milton Moreland; Chapter 3 Acts and the Apostles: Issues of Leadership in the Second Century, Joseph B. Tyson; Chapter 4 Spec(tac)ular Sights: Mirroring in/of Acts, David M. Reis; Chapter 5 Acts of Ascension: History, Exaltation, and Ideological Legitimation, David R. McCabe; Chapter 6 Time and Space Travel in Luke-Acts, John Moles; Chapter 7 The Complexity of Pairing : Reading Acts 16 with Plutarch's Parallel Lives, Marianne Bjelland Kartzow; Chapter 8 Constructing Paul as a Christian in the Acts of the Apostles, Christopher Mount; Chapter 9 Bold Speech, Opposition, and Philosophical Imagery in the Acts of the Apostles, Rub#x00E9;n R. Dupertuis; Chapter 10 Among the Apologists? Reading Acts with Justin Martyr, Andrew Gregory; Chapter 11 The Second Sophistic and the Cultural Idealization of Paul in Acts, Ryan Carhart; Chapter 12 Reading Luke-Acts in Second-Century Alexandria: From Clement to the Shadow of Apollos, Claire Clivaz;