TY - BOOK AU - Alexander,Loveday AU - Walton,Steve TI - Reading Acts today: essays in honour of Loveday C.A. Alexander T2 - Library of New Testament studies SN - 9780567238139 U1 - 226.606/REA PY - 2011/// CY - London, UK, New York, NY PB - T. and T. Clark KW - Bible KW - N.T KW - Acts KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-217) and indexes; Introduction: The honouree: Loveday Alexander / Lloyd K. Pietersen; Part I. Reading Acts in its ancient context --; The genre of Acts: revisited; Richard A. Burridge --; Why did Mary wrap the newborn Jesus in "swaddling clothes"?: Luke 2.7 and 2.12 in the context of Luke/Acts and first-century literature; Thomas E. Phillips --; Luke's use of Papias for narrating the death of Judas; Dennis R. MacDonald --; Scared to death: the rhetoric of fear in the "tragedy" of Ananias and Sapphira; F. Scott Spencer --; Does the road to Damascus run through the letters of Paul?; R. Barry Matlock --; Part II. Reading themes in Acts --; Luke/Acts, or Luke and Acts?: a reaffirmation of narrative unity; Joel B. Green --; Luke's Jerusalem perspective; James D.G. Dunn --; Philological and performative perspectives on Pentecost; Heidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons --; The place of Acts 20.28 in Luke's theology of the cross; I. Howard Marshall --; The resurrection and its witnesses in the book of Acts; Daniel Marguerat --; A spirituality of Acts?; Steve Walton ER -