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The First Christian Historian: Writing the 'Acts of the Apostles'

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The First Christian Historian: Writing the 'Acts of the Apostles' - Marguerat, Daniel, and McKinney, Ken (Translated by), and Laughery, Gregory J. (Translated by)
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As the first historian of Christianity, Luke's reliability is vigorously disputed among scholars. The author of the Acts is often accused of being a biased, imprecise, and anti-Jewish historian who created a distorted portrait of Paul. Daniel Marguerat tries to avoid being caught in this true/false quagmire when examining Luke's interpretation of history. Instead he combines different tools - reflection upon historiography, the rules of ancient historians and narrative criticism - to analyse the Acts and gauge the ...

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The First Christian Historian: Writing the 'Acts of the Apostles' 2004, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521609494

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The First Christian Historian: Writing the 'Acts of the Apostles' 2002, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521816502

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