The present volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth International
Symposium of the Leuven Centre for the Study of the Gospels which was
dedicated to various aspects of Luke’s writings that all have to do with
his knowledge of the world he is describing in his work. The symposium
studied a number of topics relating to the social world of earliest
Christianity. Contributors had been asked to address, if relevant, (1)
the history of research for the theme that had been assigned to them,
(2) recent developments in assessing the relationship between Gospel and
Acts and the dating of both works, and (3) the implications that can be
drawn from studying the evidence of Luke-Acts for reconstructing the
life-world of the first Christian communities. Contributors include
Giovanni Bazzana, Mark Bilby, Michelle Christian, Jens Herzer, John
Kloppenborg, Manfred Lang, Markus Oehler, Thomas Phillips, Dieter Roth,
Dan Smith, and Arjan Zuiderhoek.