The Puzzle of Paul in Acts A Historical and Linguistic Interpretation

1. In Quest of the Paul of Acts; 2. Approaching the Puzzle: Integrating Description and Explanation; 3. Is Acts what it Appears to Be? A Case for Acts as a Likely Place to Look for Paul; 4. The Problem of Acts and Galatians, Part I: A History of Chronology and Controversy; 5. The Problem of Acts and Galatians, Part II: Texts, Contexts, and Explanations; 6. The Puzzle of the “We” Material in Acts; 7. The Potential of Paul in Athens; 8. Putting the Pieces Together; Conclusion: The Never-Ending Story of Paul in Acts.

Biography

Nathan Nadeau is a faculty member in New Testament at the Toronto Baptist Seminary, and a post-doctoral Research Fellow at McMaster Divinity College (PhD, New Testament, 2025), both in Ontario, Canada. He has published in Biblical Interpretation, Filología Neotestamentaria, the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism and the McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry.

"This remarkable text is comprehensive, detailed, and gripping and predictably will immediately belong to a small body of final authority in the study of the historical Paul in Acts. Its breadth of examination of ancient texts and modern scholars is a gift to scholarship and research." - Dr Paul Barnett AM, Lecturer Emeritus, Moore College; Honorary Fellow, Ancient History, Macquarie University.

"Nathan Nadeau has written an excellent book on Acts that models the best in ancient historiography supported by Greek linguistics. He establishes a means of examining and weighing the historical evidence and then shows how such interpretive judgments make a difference for interpretation. This book sets a new standard for historiography of the New Testament." - Stanley E. Porter, President and Dean, Professor of New Testament, and Roy A. Hope Chair in Christian Worldview, McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, Canada.