{"id":5645,"date":"2026-03-26T15:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegateway.press\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:38:06","slug":"book-excerpt-engaging-the-first-christian-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raincrossdev2.com\/gateway\/book-excerpt-engaging-the-first-christian-historian\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Excerpt &#8211; Engaging the First Christian Historian"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":true},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":true},"author":21,"featured_media":5646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"Steve Walton, \u2018A Tale of Two Perspectives? The Place of the Temple in Acts\u2019, in T. Desmond Alexander and Simon J. Gathercole (eds), <em>Heaven on Earth: The Temple in Biblical Theology <\/em>(Carlisle: Paternoster, 2004), 135\u201349; reprinted in Steve Walton, <em>Reading Acts Theologically<\/em>, LNTS 661 (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), 75\u201387. Citations throughout are from the latter.\",\"id\":\"6d78a1d1-7737-4e15-9057-ac525632c752\"},{\"content\":\"Walton, \u2018A Tale of Two Perspectives?\u2019 75.\",\"id\":\"0ccdcdfb-9988-4292-bbbc-a53969641511\"},{\"content\":\"3\u00a0 Ibid., 83.\",\"id\":\"790ee591-82b4-4e98-ae51-8e326454a428\"},{\"content\":\"4 Ibid., 83\u20136. Harold W. Turner, <em>From Temple to Meeting House: The Phenomenology and Theology of Places of Worship <\/em>(Religion and Society 16; The Hague: Mouton, 1979), 18\u201342, 54\u201367. In this respect, Walton explains, one avoids the criticisms of Chance, who complains, among other things, that \u2018interpreters who argue that Luke has consciously dubbed Jesus as the new temple to replace the old one offer such arguments on the flimsiest of grounds\u2019. J. Bradley Chance, <em>Jerusalem, the Temple and the New Age in Luke-Acts <\/em>(Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1988), 41 (cf. also pp. 42\u20134).\",\"id\":\"fb1371c9-4f79-42dc-bdb6-9385fea0d42d\"},{\"content\":\"While I do hold particular views of the authorship of Acts, I do not intend to lay claim to them here. I refer to the author as \u2018Luke\u2019 by convention, and presume the author of Acts to be the same person who authored the Gospel of Luke.\",\"id\":\"93e0a657-5a57-4d89-8f38-1eed39248dee\"},{\"content\":\"Richard I. Pervo, <em>Acts: A Commentary <\/em>(Hermeneia, Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2009), 88.\",\"id\":\"b3cfa62d-cb5a-400b-a85e-64596f4532fb\"},{\"content\":\"Even if prayer did occur, there is no mention of sacrifice. Importantly, however, Eyal Regev suggests that public prayer develops from the sacrificial rite, ultimately becoming an integral part of the cult. If this is true, mention of prayer itself is sufficient to imply the cultic enterprise, whether or not Luke mentions sacrifice or not. Eyal Regev, <em>The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred <\/em>(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019), 165\u20136.\",\"id\":\"1955badf-fa70-4fc3-97a3-ab4b4d7ce95c\"},{\"content\":\"C. K. Barrett, \u2018Attitudes to the Temple in the Acts of the Apostles\u2019, in William Horbury (ed.), <em>Templum Amicitiae: Essays on the Second Temple Presented to Ernst Bammel <\/em>(JSNTSup 48; Sheffield: JSOTPress, 1991), 345.\",\"id\":\"423b00b1-8562-4e0d-9021-b99dd63aed23\"},{\"content\":\"Barrett, \u2018Attitudes to the Temple in the Acts of the Apostles\u2019, 346.\",\"id\":\"826fb8c4-cf5f-40e8-a360-dcc802b9520f\"}]"},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","post-password-required","hentry","category-theology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raincrossdev2.com\/gateway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raincrossdev2.com\/gateway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raincrossdev2.com\/gateway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raincrossdev2.com\/gateway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raincrossdev2.com\/gateway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raincrossdev2.com\/gateway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raincrossdev2.com\/gateway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raincrossdev2.com\/gateway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raincrossdev2.com\/gateway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raincrossdev2.com\/gateway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}