1. Acts and Paul: Is Acts at all useful in constructing a biography of Paul?

Suggested Reading

Hengel, Martin and Anna Maria Schwemer. 1997. Paul Between Damascus and Antioch: The Unknown Years. Trans. J. Bowden. London: SCM.

Hyldahl, Niels. 2002. “The reception of Paul in the acts of the apostles.” In The New Testament as reception, 110-19. London/New York: Sheffield Academic Press.

Keck, Leander E. 1989. “Images of Paul in the New Testament.” Interpretation 43: 341-51.

Lentz, John Clayton. 2004. Luke’s portrait of Paul. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.

Marguerat, Daniel, ed. 2009. Reception of Paulinism in Acts. BETL 229. Leuven etc.: Peeters. 

Marguerat, Daniel. 2013. Paul in Acts and Paul in his Letters. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 

Murphy-O’Connor, J. 1993. “Paul and Gallio.” Journal of Biblical Literature 112: 315-17.

Porter, Stanley E. 1999. The Paul of Acts. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Porter, Stanley E. 2014. “The Portrait of Paul in Acts.” In The Blackwell companion to Paul, 124-38. Chichester etc.: Wiley-Blackwell.

Riesner, Rainer. 1998. Paul’s Early Period: Chronology, Mission Strategy, Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Rothschild, Clare K. 2014. Paul in Athens: The Popular Religious Context of Acts 17. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 

Schröter, Jens. 2009. “Paulus in der Apostelgeschichte.” Internationale Katholische Zeitschrift Communio 38: 135-48.

Tajra, Harry William. 1989. The Trial of St. Paul: a juridical exegesis of the second half of the Acts of the Apostles.  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

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