Christianity Today Book Award Winner

Book Award of Excellence, Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship

Preaching Today Book Award (Editor's Pick - Commentaries)

Highly respected New Testament scholar Craig Keener is known for his meticulous and comprehensive research. This commentary on Acts, his magnum opus, may be the largest and most thoroughly documented Acts commentary ever written. Useful not only for the study of Acts but also early Christianity, this work sets Acts in its first-century context.

This magisterial commentary utilizes an unparalleled range of ancient sources and offers a wealth of fresh insights. The four-volume set, available at a special price, is an invaluable resource for New Testament professors and students, pastors, Acts scholars, and libraries.
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This four-volume commentary on Acts utilizes an unparalleled range of ancient sources and offers a wealth of fresh insights.

Product details

ISBN
9780801039898
Published
2015-10-13
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group; Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group
Weight
8812 gr
Height
666 mm
Width
502 mm
Thickness
274 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
4640

Biographical note

Craig S. Keener (Ph.D., Duke University) is F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is author of 38 books, 5 of which have won awards in Christianity Today. More than a million copies of his books are in circulation; the most popular is The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament, which provides cultural background on each passage of the New Testament. Craig is also the New Testament editor for the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, which won the International Book Award for Christianity and Bible of the year in the Christian Book Awards. Craig is editor of the Bulletin for Biblical Research and is past president of the Evangelical Theological Society. Craig's wife, Dr. Médine Moussounga Keener, was a refugee in her home country of Congo; their story appears in Impossible Love: The True Story of an African Civil War, Miracles, and Hope against All Odds (Chosen, 2016). His blog site is www.craigkeener.com.