Select bibliography
Alexander, J. A., A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles (1857; Banner of Truth, 1963, volumes 1 and 2 together).
Barclay, William, The Acts of the Apostles, in The Daily Study Bible (St Andrew Press, 1953; 2nd edition, 1955).
Barrett, C. K., Luke the Historian in Recent Study (Epworth, 1961).
Baur, F. C., Paul, the Apostle of Jesus Christ, His Life and Works, in 2 volumes (translated into English, 1836; Williams & Norgate, 1873–5).
Bengel, Johann Albrecht, Gnomon of the New Testament, vol. 2, 1742; translated into English by Andrew R. Fausset (T. & T. Clark, 6th edition, 1866).
Blaiklock, E. M., The Acts of the Apostles: An Historical Commentary (Tyndale Press, 1959).
___, Cities of the New Testament (Pickering & Inglis, 1965).
Bruce, F. F., The Speeches in the Acts of the Apostles (Tyndale Press, 1943).
___, The Acts of the Apostles: The Greek Text with Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale Press, 1951).
___, Commentary on the Book of the Acts: The English Text with Introduction, Exposition and Notes, The New London Commentary on the New Testament (Marshall, Morgan and Scott/Eerdmans, 1954).
___, ‘The Speeches in Acts: Thirty Years After’, in Reconciliation and Hope: New Testament Essays on Atonement and Eschatology, essays in honour of L. L. Morris, ed. Robert Banks (Paternoster Press, 1974).
Cadbury, Henry, The Making of Luke–Acts (Macmillan, 1927; 2nd edition, SPCK, 1958).
Calvin, John, The Acts of the Apostles, an exposition in 2 volumes: vol. 1, chapters 1–13 (originally 1552; translated into English, 1965); vol. 2, chapters 14–28 (originally 1554; translated into English 1966); ed. D. W. and T. F. Torrance (Oliver and Boyd).
Chrysostom, John, The Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles, preached in Constantinople in ad 400; from A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, ed. Philip Schaff, vol. 11 (1851; Eerdmans reprint, 1975).
Coggan, Donald, Paul: Portrait of a Revolutionary (Hodder & Stoughton, 1984).
Conybeare, W. J. and J. S. Howson, The Life and Epistles of St Paul (Longmans Green, new edition, 1880).
Conzelmann, Hans, The Theology of St Luke (Faber, 1960; being the English translation of Die Mitte der Zeit, 1954).
Dibelius, Martin, Studies in the Acts of the Apostles (originally written between 1923 and his death in 1947, published in 1951; translated into English, SCM, 1956).
Dunn, James D. G., Baptism in the Holy Spirit (SCM, 1970).
___, Jesus and the Spirit: A Study of the Religious and Charismatic Experience of Jesus and the First Christians as Reflected in the New Testament (SCM, 1975).
Dupont, Dom Jacques, The Salvation of the Gentiles: Essays on the Acts of the Apostles (1967; translated into English by Paulist Press, 1979).
Edersheim, Alfred, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, 2 volumes (Longmans, 1883).
___, Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ (Religious Tract Society, undated).
Farrar, F. W., The Life and Work of St Paul (Cassell, popular edition, 1891).
Gärtner, Bertil, The Areopagus Speech and Natural Revelation (Uppsala, 1955).
Gasque, W. Ward, A History of the Criticism of the Acts of the Apostles (Mohr/Eerdmans, 1975).
___, ‘The Book of Acts and History’, in Unity and Diversity in New Testament Theology, essays in honour of G. E. Ladd, ed. Robert A. Guelich (Eerdmans, 1978).
Gasque, W. Ward and Ralph P. Martin, eds., Apostolic History and the Gospel: Biblical and Historical Essays (Paternoster, 1970).
Gomme, A. W., A Historical Commentary on Thucydides, in 5 volumes, vol. 1 (1945), vols. 2 & 3 (1956), vol. 4 (1970) and vol. 5 (1981) by A. W. Gomme, A. Andrews and K. J. Dovey (Clarendon Press).
Green, Michael, The Meaning of Salvation (Hodder & Stoughton, 1965).
___, Evangelism in the Early Church (1970; Highland, 1984).
___, I Believe in the Holy Spirit (Hodder & Stoughton, revised edition, 1985).
Haenchen, Ernst, The Acts of the Apostles: A Commentary (1956; 14th German edition, 1965; translated into English, Basil Blackwell, 1971).
Hanson, R. P. C., The Acts (1967; Clarendon Press, 1982).
Harnack, Adolf, Luke the Physician (1906; translated into English, Williams & Norgate, 1907).
___, The Acts of the Apostles (translated into English, Williams & Norgate, 1909).
Hemer, Colin, The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History, ed. Conrad H. Gempf (Mohr, 1989).
Hengel, Martin, Acts and the History of Earliest Christianity (SCM, 1979).
Hobart, W. K., The Medical Language of St Luke (Dublin University Press, 1882; reprinted by Baker, 1954).
Horton, Stanley M., The Book of Acts: A Commentary (Gospel Publishing House, 1981).
Irenaeus, Against Heresies, in The Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (1885; Eerdmans, 1981).
James, M. R., translation of The Apocryphal New Testament (Clarendon Press, 1924; corrected edition, 1953).
Josephus, Flavius, The Antiquities of the Jews, c. ad 93–94, translated by William Whiston, 1737; from Josephus: Complete Works (Pickering & Inglis, 1981).
___, The Wars of the Jews, c.78–79, translated by William Whiston, 1737; from Josephus: Complete Works (Pickering & Inglis, 1981).
Keck, Leander E. and J. Louis Martyn, eds., Studies in Luke–Acts (Abingdon, 1966; SPCK, 1968; Fortress, 1980).
Knowling, R. J., The Acts of the Apostles, in The Expositor’s Greek Testament (Hodder & Stoughton, 1900; 2nd edition, 1901).
Lenski, R. C. H., The Interpretation of the Acts of the Apostles (1934; Augsburg, 1961).
Longenecker, Richard N., Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period (Eerdmans, 1975).
___, The Acts of the Apostles: Introduction, Text and Exposition, in The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, ed. Frank Gaebelein, vol. 9 (Regency Reference Library, Zondervan, 1981).
Marshall, I. Howard, Luke: Historian and Theologian (Paternoster, 1970).
___, The Acts of the Apostles: An Introduction and Commentary, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (IVP, 1980).
Metzger, Bruce M., A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (United Bible Societies, corrected edition, 1975).
Morgan, G. Campbell, The Acts of the Apostles (Fleming H. Revell, 1924; Pickering & Inglis, 1946).
Morton, H. V., In the Steps of St Paul (Richard Cowan, 1936).
Neil, William, The Acts of the Apostles, in the New Century Bible (Oliphants/Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1973).
Pierson, A. T., The Acts of the Holy Spirit (Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1895).
Rackham, R. B., The Acts of the Apostles: An Exposition, Westminster Commentaries Series (Methuen, 1901; 4th edition, 1909).
Ramsay, Sir William M., The Church in the Roman Empire before ad 170 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1893).
___, St Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen (Hodder & Stoughton, 1895; 11th edition, undated).
___, The Cities of St Paul: Their Influence on His Life and Thought (Hodder & Stoughton, 1907).
Ridderbos, H. N., The Speeches of Peter in the Acts of the Apostles (Tyndale Press, 1962).
Sherwin-White, A. N., Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament (Oxford University Press, 1963; Baker, 1978).
Smith, James, The Voyage and Shipwreck of St Paul, revised and corrected by Walter E. Smith (4th edition, Longmans, 1880).
Stanton, Graham N., Jesus of Nazareth in New Testament Preaching (Cambridge University Press, 1974).
Stonehouse, N. B., Paul before the Areopagus: And Other New Testament Studies (Tyndale Press, 1957).
Stronstad, Roger, The Charismatic Theology of St Luke (Hendrickson, 1984).
Torrey, C. C., The Composition and Date of Acts (Harvard University Press, 1916).
Vermes, Geza, The Dead Sea Scrolls in English (1962; 2nd edition, Penguin, 1975).
Walker, Thomas, The Acts of the Apostles (1910; Moody Press, 1965).
Williams, C. S. C., A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Black’s New Testament Commentaries (A. & C. Black, 1957; 2nd edition, 1964).