Download or read book The Book of Acts Ain Its Palestinian Setting written by Bauckham and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1995-07-24 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Acts in Its Palestinian Setting is devoted to a series of studies of those parts of the narrative of Acts that are specifically set in Palestine. The geographical, political, cultural, social, and religious aspects of first-century Jewish Palestine are all explored in order to throw light on Luke's account of the Palestinian origins of early Christianity . There are fresh assessments of the historical significance of key features, persons, and events in Luke's narrative.