Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The location of cultures in Second Temple Palestine / Tessa Rajak -- Acts and Roman policy in Judaea / David W.J. Gill -- The geography of Palestine in Acts / Martin Hengel -- Palestinian Jewish personal names in Acts / Margaret H. Williams -- Chief priests, Sadducees, Pharisees and Sanhedrin in Acts / Steve Mason -- Synagogues in Jerusalem / Rainer Riesner -- The composition of the Jerusalem church / David A. Fiensy -- The population size of Jerusalem and the numerical growth of the Jerusalem church / Wolfgang Reinhardt -- Jewish prayer literature and the Jerusalem church in Acts / Daniel K. Falk -- The cenacle--topographical setting for Acts 2:44-45 / Jerome Murphy-O'Connor -- The Palestinian cultural context of earliest Christian community of goods / Brian Capper -- Jewish activity against Christians in Palestine according to Acts / Ernst Bammel -- Paul's pre-Christian career according to Acts / Simon L|gasse -- Peter and Ben Stada in Lydda / Joshua Schwartz -- James and the Jerusalem church / Richard Bauckham.