Luke-Acts – ACTS and MORE—Steve Walton’s blog on New Testament Studies

6 October 2024

Two lectures on Acts at EGST: slides and handouts

I have the privilege in the next two days (7 and 8 October) of giving two lectures about Acts at the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology in Addis Ababa. I’m very grateful for this opportunity. Below are links to the handouts and slides for both lectures. Monday: “‘The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob’ (Acts 3:13): Is That All?’ (this...

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17 May 2024

Church planting in Acts: slides

I have had the privilege of teaching on ‘Church planting in Acts’ to two groups of Anglican Network in Canada clergy, plus a few others, this week in Alberta. This has been great fun! Here’s a link to a pdf of the slides from the sessions. Thoughts and comments are most welcome!

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11 October 2023

Reading Lukewise: an overview of Luke’s Gospel—slides

I spoke to our students at Emmanuel Church, Loughborough this week, introducing Luke’s Gospel to them: they’re studying it this academic year with our student worker, James. Here are the slides: thoughts and comments welcome!

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17 August 2023

Is the Roman Empire a friend or a foe in Acts?

I’m giving a paper to the Hindustan Bible Institute, Chennai, India’s online research seminar today (17 August), and so here are the slides and the handout for this talk. Thoughts and comments welcome!

Articles and papers/Research/Speaking Comments: 4

24 July 2023

Reading Acts Theologically—in paperback!

I’m delighted to say that my book Reading Acts Theologically, published in July 2022 by T. & T. Clark/Bloomsbury, will be available in paperback on 24 January 2024, which makes it much more affordable. The official price is £28.99, but you can pre-prder it from the Bloomsbury website here for £26.09. For more about the book, see my post about...

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10 April 2023

Saul’s change of name to Paul

The lovely people at the Logos Academic blog kindly commissioned and published a piece from me on what Saul of Tarsus’ name changed to Paul. This is an issue I had to think about in the light of this shift in Acts, and the fact that he’s always ‘Paul’ in his letters. Enjoy! Comments are most welcome.

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