The Acts of the Apostles – A Newly Discovered Commentary

J. B. Lightfoot, Ben Witherington Ii, Todd D. Still, Jeanette M. Hagen (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

407 Seiten

2014
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-2944-6 (ISBN)

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Recently discovered in the Durham Cathedral Library, J. B. Lightfoot's commentary on the Acts of the Apostles is a landmark event of great significance to both church and academy. Carefully transcribed and edited, these texts give us a new appreciation for Lightfoot's contributions to biblical scholarship.

Preaching's Survey of Bibles and Bible Reference
InterVarsity Press is proud to present The Lightfoot Legacy, a three-volume set of previously unpublished material from J. B. Lightfoot, one of the great biblical scholars of the modern era.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.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-1889) was an English theologian, preacher, canon of St Paul's Cathedral and bishop of Durham. Ben Witherington III (PhD, University of Durham) is professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary and on the doctoral faculty at St. Andrews University in Scotland. Witherington is the author of over forty books, including The Jesus Quest and The Paul Quest. Todd D. Still (PhD, University of Glasgow) is dean of George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University. He is the author of Conflict at Thessalonica: A Pauline Church and Its Neighbours and the editor of Jesus and Paul Reconnected: Fresh Pathways into an Old Debate.

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Foreword

Editors? Introduction: J. B. Lightfoot as Biblical Commentator

Part I: Introduction to Commenting in General

Part II: Introduction to Acts—Preliminary Matters

Part III: The Commentary on Acts

The Superscript

The Preface

Ascension, Judas? Demise, the Filling Up of the Twelve (Acts 1)

Excursus: On the Historical Problem of the Varying Accounts of Judas? Demise

Pentecost and Its Aftermath (Acts 2)

The Beginnings and Trials of the Church in Jerusalem

(Acts 3?6)

Excursus: The Sanhedrin and the High Priests

Excursus: The Primacy of Peter

Excursus: The Diaconate

The First Martyr for Christ (Acts 7)

Excursus: The Tabernacle

Excursus: The Authenticity of the Speech of St. Stephen

Simon, the Samaritans, and Philip (Acts 8)

Excursus: Simon Magus

Excursus: Conversion of the Ethiopian

The 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 Journeys

The 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 Thessalonike

And So to Corinth (Acts 18)

Finally at Ephesus (Acts 19)

The Third Missionary Journey (Acts 19:21?21:39)

Excursus: Timothy and Erastus

Excursus: The Speech of St. Paul at Miletus

Conclusions on the Rest of Acts

Appendix A: Lightfoot?s Article on Acts for Smith?s Dictionary of the Bible

Appendix B: Illustrations of the Acts from Recent Discoveries

Appendix C: St. Paul?s History After the Close of the Acts

Appendix D: The Obituary/Homage to Lightfoot

Author Index

Scripture Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.12.2014
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 234 mm
Gewicht	721 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8308-2944-X / 083082944X
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-2944-6 / 9780830829446
Zustand	Neuware