The Acts of the Apostles
A Newly Discovered Commentary
J. B. Lightfoot, Ben Witherington III, Todd D. Still, Jeanette M. Hagen
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The Acts of the Apostles
A Newly Discovered Commentary
J. B. Lightfoot, Ben Witherington III, Todd D. Still, Jeanette M. Hagen
Informazioni sul libro
Preaching's Survey of Bibles and Bible ReferenceBiblical Foundations Award WinnerInterVarsity Press is proud to present The Lightfoot Legacy, a three-volume set of previously unpublished material from J. B. Lightfoot, one of the great biblical scholars of the modern era.In the spring of 2013, Ben Witherington III discovered hundreds of pages of biblical commentary by Lightfoot in the Durham Cathedral Library. While incomplete, these commentaries represent a goldmine for historians and biblical scholars, as well as for the many people who have found Lightfoot's work both informative and edifying, deeply learned and pastorally sensitive.Among those many pages were two sets of lecture notes on the Acts of the Apostles. Together they amount to a richly detailed, albeit unfinished, commentary on Acts 1-21. The project of writing a commentary on Acts had long been on Lightfoot's mind, and in the 1880s he wrote an article about the book for the second British edition of William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible. Thankfully, that is not all he left behind.Now on display for all to see, these commentary notes reveal a scholar well ahead of his time, one of the great minds of his or any generation. Well over a century later, The Acts of the Apostles remains a relevant and significant resource for the church today.
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Contents
The SuperscriptThe PrefaceAscension, Judas’ Demise, the Filling Up of the Twelve (Acts 1)Excursus—On the Historical Problem of the Varying Accounts of Judas’ DemisePentecost and Its Aftermath (Acts 2)The Beginnings and Trials of the Church in Jerusalem (Acts 3–6)Excursus: The Sanhedrin and the High PriestsExcursus: The Primacy of PeterExcursus: The DiaconateThe First Martyr for Christ (Acts 7)Excursus: The TabernacleExcursus: The Authenticity of the Speech of St. StephenSimon, the Samaritans, and Philip (Acts 8)Excursus: Simon MagusExcursus: Conversion of the EthiopianThe Conversion of Saul (Acts 9)The Surprising Story of Cornelius (Acts 10)Trouble in Zion—Peter Explains (Acts 11)The Persecuted Church and the Dawn of the Mission of the Persecutor (Acts 12)The First Missionary Journey (Acts 13–14)Excursus: St. Paul’s Apostolic JourneysThe Apostolic Council and Its Aftermath (Acts 15)The Second Missionary Journey (Acts 16)Macedonia and On to Athens (Acts 17)Excursus: The History of St. Paul’s Days at ThessalonikeAnd So to Corinth (Acts 18)Finally at Ephesus (Acts 19)The Third Missionary Journey (Acts 19:21–21:39)Excursus: Timothy and ErastusExcursus: The Speech of St. Paul at MiletusConclusions on the Rest of Acts