Joseph B. Tyson

Acts and Christian Beginnings: The Acts Seminar Report Joseph B. Tyson

Acts was long thought to be a first-century document, and its author Luke - a disciple of Paul - an eyewitness or acquaintance of eyewitnesses. It was considered history, pure and simple. But Westar's Acts Seminar concluded that Acts is from the second century, a conclusion that directly challenges the view of Acts as history and raises a host of new questions, addressed in this final report of the Acts Seminar.

The Acts Seminar was a decade-long collaborative research effort by religious studies scholars affiliated with the Westar Institute. It began deliberations in 2001, with the task of going through the canonical Acts of the Apostles from beginning to end and evaluating it for historical accuracy.