| List of Contributors | ix |
| Preface | xiii |
1 | The Location of Cultures in Second Temple Palestine: The Evidence of Josephus | 1 |
I. | Jew versus Greek | 3 |
II. | The Cultures of Palestine | 5 |
III. | Constructed Identities | 7 |
IV. | Ethnic Identities in Josephus | 9 |
V. | Jews in Josephus | 10 |
VI. | Jews and Gentiles in Josephus | 10 |
VII. | Greeks in Josephus | 11 |
VIII. | Greeks and Syrians in Josephus | 12 |
2 | Acts and Roman Policy in Judaea | 15 |
I. | The Incorporation of Judaea | 16 |
II. | Judaea Under Agrippa | 19 |
III. | Judaea Returned to Roman Control | 19 |
IV. | Felix | 21 |
V. | Porcius Festus | 25 |
VI. | Conclusion | 25 |
Appendix I | Prefects of Judaea (AD 6 - 41) | 26 |
Appendix II | Procurators of Judaea (AD 44 - 66) | 26 |
3 | The Geography of Palestine in Acts | 27 |
I. | The Problem | 28 |
II. | The Temple in Jerusalem | 35 |
III. | Jerusalem and the Hill Country of Judah | 45 |
IV. | The Cities of the Coastal Plain | 51 |
V. | Peter's Journey (9:32-11:18): Lydda, Joppa and Caesarea | 59 |
VI. | Antipatris and the Road from Jerusalem to Caesarea | 64 |
VII. | Samaria in the Acts of the Apostles | 67 |
4 | Palestinian Jewish Personal Names in Acts | 79 |
I. | Palestinian Jews in Acts in English Alphabetical Order | 81 |
II. | First Names | 84 |
III. | Second Names | 101 |
IV. | General Character of the Palestinian Jewish Onomastikon | 106 |
Appendix | Palestinian Jews in Acts--the Doubtful Cases | 110 |
| Abbreviations | 113 |
5 | Chief Priests, Sadducees, Pharisees and Sanhedrin in Acts | 115 |
I. | The State of the Question | 119 |
II. | Luke-Acts: An Interpretation of the Story | 127 |
III. | Chief Priests, Sadducees, Pharisees and Sanhedrin in Luke-Acts | 133 |
IV. | In Josephus | 158 |
V. | General Conclusions | 174 |
6 | Synagogues in Jerusalem | 179 |
I. | The Pre-70 Synagogue | 180 |
II. | Pre-70 Synagogues in Jerusalem: Literary Sources | 187 |
III. | Pre-70 Synagogues in Jerusalem: Archaeological Evidence | 192 |
IV. | Palestinian Synagogues in Luke-Acts | 202 |
V. | Conclusion | 209 |
| Addendum | 209 |
7 | The Composition of the Jerusalem Church | 213 |
I. | The Social Groups in Jerusalem | 215 |
II. | The Socio-Economic Composition of the Jerusalem Church | 226 |
III. | The Cultural Groups Among Jerusalem's Jews | 230 |
IV. | Cultural Diversity in the Jerusalem Church | 234 |
8 | The Population Size of Jerusalem and the Numerical Growth of the Jerusalem Church | 237 |
I. | Questioning the Figures' Reliability | 238 |
II. | The Size of the Population of Jerusalem in the Time of the Earliest Church | 240 |
III. | The Number of Pilgrims in Jerusalem at the Great Feasts, Especially Pentecost | 259 |
IV. | Conclusion | 263 |
9 | Jewish Prayer Literature and the Jerusalem Church in Acts | 267 |
I. | Introduction | 268 |
II. | Lukan Evidence for Jewish and Christian Worship | 269 |
III. | Pre-70 Jewish Worship from Other Sources | 277 |
IV. | Acts and the Jewish Heritage of Pre-70 Christian Worship | 298 |
10 | The Cenacle -- Topographical Setting for Acts 2:44-45 | 303 |
I. | A 2nd-Century Church on Mount Zion | 305 |
II. | The Christian Community of Aelia Capitolina | 310 |
III. | The Camp of the Tenth Legion | 313 |
IV. | Flight from Jerusalem? | 316 |
V. | The Quality of Life in 1st-Century Mount Zion | 318 |
11 | The Palestinian Cultural Context of Earliest Christian Community of Goods | 323 |
I. | Introduction | 324 |
II. | Community of Goods as a Feature of Palestinian Culture | 327 |
III. | The 'Summary' Statements of Acts 2:44-45 and 4:32, 34 | 335 |
IV. | Barnabas, Ananias, and Sapphira: Acts 4:36-5:11 | 337 |
V. | Influence from an 'Essene Quarter' on Mount Zion? | 341 |
VI. | The 'Daily Ministry' of Acts 6:1-6 | 350 |
VII. | Conclusions | 355 |
12 | Jewish Activity Against Christians in Palestine According to Acts | 357 |
13 | Paul's Pre-Christian Career According to Acts | 365 |
I. | Born in Tarsus, Citizen of Tarsus and Rome | 366 |
II. | Paul in Jerusalem | 373 |
III. | The Persecutor | 379 |
IV. | Conclusion | 390 |
14 | Peter and Ben Stada in Lydda | 391 |
I. | Peter in Lydda | 392 |
II. | Ben Stada in Lod | 394 |
III. | Identifying Ben Stada | 397 |
IV. | The Mesit of the Rabbis | 400 |
V. | Peter as Mesit and Mesit as Healer | 403 |
VI. | Peter and Ben Stada | 412 |
15 | James and the Jerusalem Church | 415 |
I. | Introduction | 416 |
II. | Jerusalem at the Centre | 417 |
III. | The Leadership of the Jerusalem Church | 427 |
IV. | The Jerusalem Church and the Gentiles | 450 |
| Index of Modern Authors | 481 |
| Index of Ancient Sources | 491 |
| Index of Biblical References | 505 |
| Index of Places, Names and Subjects | 517 |