Shaping the Past to Define the Present

Rethinking early Christian identity with the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles     Shaping the Past to Define the Present  comprises both new and revised essays by esteemed New Testament scholar Gregory E. Sterling on Jewish and early Christian historiography. A sequel to his seminal work,  Historiography and Self-Definition , this volume expands on Sterling's reading of Luke-Acts in the context of contemporary Jewish and Greek historiography. These systematically a