Acts And The History Of Earliest Christianity by Martin Hengel
A rigorous reassessment of the historical value of the New Testament account of the church’s beginnings, this study situates the narrative within Greco-Roman historiography and probes its sources, chronology, and theological aims. It examines the relationship between the storyline and Paul’s letters, the emergence of the Jerusalem community and the Hellenists, the Stephen episode, and the Gentile mission, giving special attention to speeches and the “we” passages as literary-historical devices. The result portrays early Christianity as a movement where theological interpretation and credible historical remembrance are closely interwoven, yielding an indispensable yet critically read source for its earliest history.
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