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  • Hardcover: 482 pages
  • Publisher: Eisenbrauns (November 1, 1990)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0931464587
  • ISBN-13: 978-0931464584
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #915,743 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Anything and everything you ever wanted to know about Acts, December 16, 2001
The amount of information in this book is absolutely overwhelming. Colin Hemer has left us with what I consider to be the greatest historical examination of Acts written in the 20th century. Authorship, date, historical reliability, and many other details are covered in as detailed and thorough a fashion as is possible.

Hemer defends a pre-70 A.D. date for Acts, along with presenting a strong case for authorship by Luke, the companion of Paul. He also presents an excellent argument for an early date for Galatians as part of his overall historical reconstruction. An extremely careful comparison of Acts and Paul's letters is studied in order to glean as much information as possible. Apparent discrepancies between Paul and Acts (chronology, historical details, etc.) are handled well.

If you have an interest in Acts and its historical reliability, then you need look nowhere else than right here. Colin Hemer has given you all you could ever want in this field.

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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!!!! What a Book!!, November 22, 2000
Ok, for all you researchers and apologists of the Christian faith, this is a necessary tool to add to your library. I cannot even begin to explain the enormous amount of detail that Hemer has produced in this work. This book covers everything from the historicity, events, people, dates, and details of everything that has occurred in and around the Book of Acts. Hemer's evidence is so concise and overwhelming that anyone who read this text and walked away still doubting his assertions would definitely need to get their head examined. Hemer has put together a very thorough chronology of events in the history of and before the Book of Acts. He has very painstakingly proved that the Book of Acts would HAVE had to have been dated around 66 A.D. or possibly even before. Of course, this places a date for the book of Luke even earlier if Hemer's conclusions are correct (and his evidence is so iron clad it is really hard to doubt). His assessment of the author of Acts (i.e. Luke) is wonderful. Hemer explains the type of historian Luke actually was by describing the pinpoint detail which Luke has included in his two pieces of work (i.e. The Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts). If you are a serious researcher or even just a cursory researcher who likes to gather great evidential works for the Christian religion then you cannot be without this crucial text. It is an invaluable tool to add to your collection.
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