{"id":22061,"date":"2016-02-12T16:06:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T16:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/craig-keener-acts-volume-two\/"},"modified":"2016-02-12T16:06:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T16:06:05","slug":"craig-keener-acts-volume-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/craig-keener-acts-volume-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Keener: Acts, Volume Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Craig Keener, Acts: An Exegetical Commentary, Volume 2, 3:1-14:28<\/a><\/em> (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013), 1200 pages, ISBN 9780801048371.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Craig Keener is in the midst of delivering the most ambitious commentary on Acts ever attempted. The volume under review is the second of four \u2013 each volume a sprawling treatment in its own right. Each volume\u2019s pages pick up where the previous one left off. The final page of volume two, the halfway point for the entire commentary, is numbered 2191<\/em> (As volume four had not yet appeared at the time of this writing, it is unclear how much of the final volume will be taken up by a bibliography for the complete commentary. Volume 2 includes a CD-Rom of \u201cWorks cited and indexes for volumes 1-2\u201d).<\/p>\n

Anyone with time and an attention span can write a sprawling work, but few can write a work so sprawling and yet so efficient<\/em>. Keener has mastered the craft of writing a commentary, and he does it better than perhaps anyone since C. K. Barrett. Obviously few people will sit down to read a commentary from beginning to end \u2013 they\u2019re not meant to be read that way \u2013 but there is no better place to begin a foray into the world of Acts than to consult Keener\u2019s word on a particular passage.<\/p>\n

One other aspect of this work should be noted: although Keener never skimps in his use of secondary works, he always allows primary<\/em> works (that is, the original sources from the ancient world) to guide the discussion. His knowledge of many different categories of primary works is impressive, and his handling of these works adds a great deal to the value of this commentary.<\/p>\n

This review is supposed to be primarily about Volume Two, but everything I\u2019ve said relates to the work as a whole. In that vein, it is worth pointing out that the reader is better off, of course, beginning with Volume One<\/a> (which includes a number of introductory essays for Acts in general). Numerous centrally important events in the spread of Christianity are recorded in Acts chaps. 3\u201314, however, and those who move on to Keener\u2019s Volume Two<\/a> will almost certainly gain a clearer understanding of how the earliest readers of Acts understood what Luke was saying.<\/p>\n

Reviewed by John C. Poirier<\/em><\/p>\n

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Publisher’s page: http:\/\/www.bakerpublishinggroup.com\/books\/acts-an-exegetical-commentary-volume-2\/335571<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Craig Keener, Acts: An Exegetical Commentary, Volume 2, 3:1-14:28 (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013), 1200 pages, ISBN 9780801048371. Craig Keener is in the midst of delivering the most ambitious commentary on Acts ever attempted. The volume under review is the second of four \u2013 each volume a sprawling treatment in its own right. Each volume\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":22062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6089],"tags":[3128,3755,6143],"ppma_author":[4607],"class_list":["post-22061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-studies","category-winter-2016","tag-acts","tag-craig-s-keener","tag-volume","author-johncpoirier"],"authors":[{"term_id":4607,"user_id":2844,"is_guest":0,"slug":"johncpoirier","display_name":"John Poirier","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JohnPoirier-150x150.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JohnPoirier-150x150.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22061"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/km7.a6a.mytemp.website\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=22061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}