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| Foreword | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: Chronologies and Theologies | |
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| Status of Scholarship: A Survey | |
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| From Multiplicity to Relative Consensus | |
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| Preservation of the Framework of Acts | |
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| Corrective to the Framework of Acts | |
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| Abandonment of the Framework of Acts | |
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| New Clarity? | |
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| Further Procedure | |
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| Methodological Considerations | |
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| Division | |
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| Early Pauline Chronology: from Jerusalem to Achaia | |
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| The Crucifixion of Jesus | |
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| The Possible Time Frame | |
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| References in the Gospels | |
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| The Day of the Crucifixion | |
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| The Early Christian Tradition | |
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| The Most Probable Date | |
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| Persecution of Stephen and Conversion | |
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| The Time of the Persecution of Stephen | |
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| The Year of the Conversion | |
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| The Chronological Nexus | |
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| Flight from Damascus | |
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| 2 Corinthians 11:32-33 | |
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| The Nabatean King Aretas IV | |
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| Damascus and the Nabateans | |
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| The Ethnarch of Aretas | |
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| Chronological Findings | |
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| The Religious Policies of Claudius | |
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| The Personality and Work of the Emperor | |
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| Measures Taken upon Assuming Power | |
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| Subsequent Developments | |
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| Restoration of Roman Religion | |
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| Mission to the Gentiles and Persecution | |
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| The Beginnings of the Mission to the Gentiles | |
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| Persecution under Agrippa I | |
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| Chronological Sequence | |
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| Famine and Apocalyptic Prophecy | |
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| Acts 11:27-28 | |
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| Famine under Claudius | |
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| Chronological Implications | |
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| The Cypriot Proconsul Sergius Paullus | |
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| Acts 13:6-12 | |
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| Extrabilical Evidence for Sergius Paullus? | |
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| Sergius Paullus and Paul | |
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| Chronological Conclusions | |
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| Paul's Roman Citizenship | |
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| Claudius' Roman Edict concerning the Jews | |
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| Sources and Problems | |
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| Suetonius | |
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| Dio Cassius | |
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| The Relationship between the Accounts of Suetonius and Dio Cassius | |
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| Paulus Orosius | |
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| Additional Sources? | |
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| Acts | |
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| Circumstances and Time of the Anti-Jewish Edict | |
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| Paul and Gallio | |
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| The Achaian Proconsulate of Gallio | |
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| The Trial before Gallio in Corinth | |
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| Later Chronology | |
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| Paul in Ephesus | |
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| The Journey to Jerusalem for Pentecost | |
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| The Egyptian Agitator | |
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| Paul before Felix and Festus | |
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| Transport to Rome | |
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| Stages of Pauline Missionary Strategy | |
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| Interim Considerations: Geographic Sequences in Paul's Letters | |
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| The Beginning of the Mission | |
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| Calling to the Gentile Mission | |
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| Geographic Framework of the Mission | |
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| Paul in Arabia | |
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| Jerusalem as Point of Departure for the Gentile Mission | |
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| Pushing Forward to the Northwest | |
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| Syro-Cilicia | |
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| Early Mission in Greece? | |
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| Transition to Antioch | |
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| Mission on Cyprus | |
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| Pushing Forward to Galatia | |
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| The Way West | |
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| Effects of the Apostolic Council | |
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| Altered Routes in Asia Minor | |
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| Initial Activity in Europe | |
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| Closing a Gap: Asia | |
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| Via Greece and Jerusalem to Rome and Spain | |
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| The Fulfilled Mission in the East | |
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| The Apostle's Rate of Travel | |
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| Wintering | |
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| Land Journeys | |
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| Sea Journeys | |
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| Attempt at a Chronological Synthesis | |
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| Acts and the Letters of Paul | |
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| Chronology and Autopsy | |
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| Acts and World History | |
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| Early Pauline Theology: The Apostle and the Church in Thessalonica | |
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| Apology for Abrupt Departure | |
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| Thessalonica at the Time of Paul | |
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| The Founding of the Christian Community | |
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| Persecution of the Community | |
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| The Apostle's Flight | |
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| Chronological Evaluation | |
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| Acts and 1 Thessalonians | |
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| The Necessity of Written Justification | |
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| Christians under the Pressure of a Pagan Metropolis | |
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| Problems of Alienation among Converts | |
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| Threats from Pagan Cults | |
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| Social Unrest and Political Pressure | |
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| A Concrete Eschatological Question | |
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| Yearnings for the Beyond in Thessalonica | |
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| The Thessalonians' Problem | |
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| 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and 1 Corinthians 15:51f | |
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| Retrospective Chronological Conclusions? | |
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| Absent Doctrine of Justification? | |
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| Pauline Nomology and Chronology | |
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| The Communication Situation | |
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| Presupposed Doctrinal Points | |
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| Antiochene and/or Pauline Theology | |
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| The Unity of 1 Thessalonians | |
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| Summary: Chronology and Theology | |
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| Illustrations | |
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| Family Tree of the Sergii | |
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| Damascus | |
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| Thessalonica | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Sources and Auxiliary Works | |
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| Commentaries | |
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| Monographs | |
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| Indexes | |
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| Authors | |
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| Names and Subjects | |
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| Scripture and Other Ancient Writings | |