In chapter 16 of the book of Acts, the narrator switches from using the third person to the first person plural. Why does he do that?
Works Cited
- C.K. Barrett, Acts: A Shorter Commentary (London: T&T Clark, 2002), xxiv.
- William Sanger Campbell, The “We” Passages of the Acts of the Apostles: The Narrator as Narrative Character (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2007), 87-91.
- Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 3.14.1. Translation taken from The Ante-Nicene Fathers (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1957).
- Mikeal Parsons, Acts, Paideia Commentaries on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2008), 238-240.
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