Description

After a review of scholarly work on the speeches in Acts, particularly Paul’s Pisidian Antioch speech, Morgan-Wynne sets Paul’s speech in the context of the first missionary journey and of the rest of Luke-Acts. He analyses structure and Luke’s sources, examining the main theological themes, including the characterisation of God and Jesus, the use of the Old Testament, the place of Israel, and the portrait of Paul that emerges. Finally, the author looks at whether the speech sheds any light on the community for which Luke wrote and the problems it may have been facing.