Some classic Scholarship on Acts of the Apostles ... please!

Scholarship on Acts is its own little world, with links into Gospel scholarship, and scholarship on Paul ... but with many issues and concerns that are unique to Acts. However, arguably, Acts is badly represented in Logos (apart from commentaries) resources. To rectify this, how about some of these texts ... which almost anyone coming to study Acts academically would want to gain familiarity with to situate their understanding within the broad sweep of work on this important book.

First and foremost:

[quote] Foakes Jackson and Krisopp Lake's, "The Beginnings of Christianity Part 1: The Acts of the Apostles" (5 volumes;

Vol. 1 Prolegomena (1920);

Vol. 2: Prolegomena Criticism (1922);

Vol. 3 The Text (1926);

Vol. 4 Translation and Commentary (1933);

Vol 5 Additional Notes (1933)

Then there is the book that made scholars take Luke-Acts seriously as a single work in 2 volumes:

[quote] Henry J. Cadbury, "The Making of Luke-Acts", 2nd Edition, 1958 (1st Edition, 1927)

There there is the book of seminal papers - many raising questions and issues still being grappled with by scholars today

[quote]Leander E. Keck and J. Louis Martyn (eds), Studies in Luke-Acts (in honour of Paul Schubert), Fortress Press (Philadelphia), 1966.

A modern supplement of Jackson and Lake's is the Eerdmans Series "The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting":

[quote]Vol. 1 The Book of Acts in its Ancient Literary Setting, Winter and Clarke (eds) - 1994

Vol. 2 The Book of Acts in its Graeco-Roman Setting, Gill and Gempf (eds) - 1994

Vol. 3 Paul in Roman Custody, Rapske, 1994

Vol. 4 The Book of Acts in its Palestinian Setting, Bauckham (ed) - 1995

Vol. 5 The Book of Acts in its Diaspora Setting, Levinskaya - 1996

and the related volume, published by Paternoster (in Britain)

[quote]Witness to the Gospel: The Theology of Acts, Marshall and Peterson (eds) 1998.

Also highly desirable is what is arguably the best conservative defence of the historicity of Acts:

[quote]Colin J, Hemer, The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History", Eisenbrauns (Winona Lake: Indiana), 1989

Also desirable is a conservative review of the history of scholarship on Acts:

[quote]W. Ward Gasque, A History of the Interpretation of the Acts of the Apostles, Wipf and Stock Publishers (Eugene: Oregon, 1989

There are also great collections of papers on Acts by the SBL -- but I guess I've suggested enough for now.

I would love to hear from Logos that all these are being seriously considered. (The Logos library won't be complete until they are ultimately added)

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Ted Hans

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MJ. Smith

I would love to hear from Logos that all these are being seriously considered.

It is rare to get feedback from Logos ... but they seem to listen. You might want to also send the request directly to suggest@logos.com.

EmileB

Me too! Big thumbs up on these. Acts seems very under represented. (Still putting in a plug for Ramsay's works in Community Pricing!!)

Stephen Paynter

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/220717#Comment_220717

Me too! Big thumbs up on these. Acts seems very under represented. (Still putting in a plug for Ramsay's works in Community Pricing!!)

Yes Yes Yes

Although, of course, St Paul the Traveller and Roman Citizen" is already in Logos.

Also, there are books I missed out in my first post that are absolute `musts' if one is to have all the important scholarly books on Acts in Logos. In particular, Martin Dibelius, "The Book of Acts: Form, Style and Theology" (so important that Fortress have it currently in print!!); and his "Studies in Acts of the Apostles".

Every new student to Acts will want to orientate themselves with respect to these "classics", even if only (especially if?) to totally disagree with them.

David McClister

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/220739#Comment_220739

The volumes by Jackson and Lake would be great additions to Logos; count me "in."

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/214871#Comment_214871

I would love to hear from Logos that all these are being seriously considered.

It is rare to get feedback from Logos ... but they seem to listen

Yes, they just add them to an internal list, a big spreadsheet as I think I once heard. Then when they go around to various publishers striking up deals, they have a list to go on of what books users have been asking for from that publisher. They don't post back here saying something is seriously being considered. The first we'll know about it is when they announce it in pre-pub. That usually means they've checked out whether the publisher would be open to letting them publish it, and they're still gauging user interest before they are totally committed to doing it. They also might not have a contract completely hashed out with the publisher regarding the final pricing and other such details. Getting strong user buy-in during pre-pub can possibly help them negotiate the contract. With some publishers, however, they have long established relationships, and they often have a commitment to doing the book early on and probably a negotiated contract in place, before we ever see it in pre-pub. Those are the ones that show up as "Under Development" right from the get-go. Relatively few like that.