Loveday Alexander is a Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield and a Canon-Theologian of Chester Cathedral.

"Alexander is to be congratulated for the energy and effort she put into these essays..." —Chrys C. Caragounis, Review of Biblical Literature, May 2008

• 1. On a Roman Bookstall: Reading Acts in its Ancient Literary Context 2. The Preface to Acts and the Historians3. Acts and Ancient Intellectual Biography4. "In Journeyings Often": Voyaging in the Acts of the Apostles and in Greek Romance5. Narrative Maps: Reflections on the Toponomy of Acts6. Fact, Fiction and the Genre of Acts 7. New Testament Narrative and Ancient Epic8. The Acts of the Apostles as an Apologetic Text9. Reading Luke-Acts from Back to Front10. Septuaginta, Fachprosa, Imitatio: Albert Wifstrand and the Language of Luke-Acts Bibliography

Loveday Alexander is a Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield and a Canon-Theologian of Chester Cathedral.

"Alexander is to be congratulated for the energy and effort she put into these essays..." —Chrys C. Caragounis, Review of Biblical Literature, May 2008

• 1. On a Roman Bookstall: Reading Acts in its Ancient Literary Context 2. The Preface to Acts and the Historians3. Acts and Ancient Intellectual Biography4. "In Journeyings Often": Voyaging in the Acts of the Apostles and in Greek Romance5. Narrative Maps: Reflections on the Toponomy of Acts6. Fact, Fiction and the Genre of Acts 7. New Testament Narrative and Ancient Epic8. The Acts of the Apostles as an Apologetic Text9. Reading Luke-Acts from Back to Front10. Septuaginta, Fachprosa, Imitatio: Albert Wifstrand and the Language of Luke-Acts Bibliography

Loveday Alexander is a Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield and a Canon-Theologian of Chester Cathedral.

"Alexander is to be congratulated for the energy and effort she put into these essays..." —Chrys C. Caragounis, Review of Biblical Literature, May 2008

• 1. On a Roman Bookstall: Reading Acts in its Ancient Literary Context 2. The Preface to Acts and the Historians3. Acts and Ancient Intellectual Biography4. "In Journeyings Often": Voyaging in the Acts of the Apostles and in Greek Romance5. Narrative Maps: Reflections on the Toponomy of Acts6. Fact, Fiction and the Genre of Acts 7. New Testament Narrative and Ancient Epic8. The Acts of the Apostles as an Apologetic Text9. Reading Luke-Acts from Back to Front10. Septuaginta, Fachprosa, Imitatio: Albert Wifstrand and the Language of Luke-Acts Bibliography