About the book: 1999 / ISBN 5-89647-033-9 St. Petersburg branch of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Irina Alekseevna Levinskaya Acts of the Apostles. Chapters I-VIII. Historical and philological commentary Proofreader Galina Taruntaeva Design Anton Bizyaev Layout Vladimir Shchutsky The book was published with the support of the Norwegian Mission to the East and the George Bell Institute (England) The commentary introduces the reader to the achievements of modern science in the field of research into the very first Christian historical work. Over the past sixty years there has been a significant advance in the study of the New Testament. There were many reasons for this: the intensive development of textual criticism led to the emergence of the modern critical text of the New Testament; the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls created a new direction in research on the history of early Christianity; archaeological finds both in Palestine and in the diaspora brought significant changes to ideas about everyday life in the 1st century. according to A.D. This knowledge is reflected in numerous modern Western commentaries. There are no reference books of this kind in Russia - this is the gap that the proposed book tries to fill, at least partially. © I. A. Levinskaya, 1999© Biblical and Theological Institute of St. Apostle Andrew, 1999