This book demonstrates that Luke-Acts provides its audience with a basic foundation for all of the various dimensions of Christian worship.
This is a revision of the Gold Medallion Award-winning commentary series. It is up to date in its discussion of theological and critical issues and thoroughly evangelical in its viewpoint.
Ore of the strong points of the book is the way in which it sees Luke-Acts against the general cultural background of its time and conveniently quotes passages from secular authors which illustrate Luke's approach and way of working.
This volume on Luke-Acts as with all titles in the Texts@Contexts Series highlights readings that make explicit the diverse contemporary contexts of biblical interpreters.
"Juel demands that Christians interpret Luke-Acts together within the framework of the Jewish crisis literature out of which they came. His hypothesis is that the best approach to understanding Luke-Acts...
... army. The 'soldiers' in v. 14 therefore may have been enlisted Jews in the service of Herod Antipas rather than Roman soldiers. This may be the reason why 'soldiers' (v. 14) is a Greek participle (στρατευόμενοι), meaning 'those in ...