The Acts of the Apostles

<P><B><I>Preaching</I>'s Survey of Bibles and Bible Reference</B></P><P><B>Biblical Foundations Award Winner</B></P><P>InterVarsity Press is proud to present The Lightfoot Legacy a three-volume set of previously unpublished material from J. B. Lightfoot one of the great biblical scholars of the modern era.</P><P>In the spring of 2013 Ben Witherington III discovered hundreds of pages of biblical commentary by Lightfoot in the Durham Cathedral Library. While incomplete these commentaries represent a goldmine for historians and biblical scholars as well as for the many people who have found Lightfoot's work both informative and edifying deeply learned and pastorally sensitive.</P><P>Among those many pages were two sets of lecture notes on the Acts of the Apostles. Together they amount to a richly detailed albeit unfinished commentary on Acts 1-21. The project of writing a commentary on Acts had long been on Lightfoot's mind and in the 1880s he wrote an article about the book for the second British edition of William Smith's <I>Dictionary of the Bible</I>. Thankfully that is not all he left behind.</P><P>Now on display for all to see these commentary notes reveal a scholar well ahead of his time one of the great minds of his or any generation. Well over a century later <I>The Acts of the Apostles</I> remains a relevant and significant resource for the church today.</P>