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This chapter considers the earliest Christian apologetic literature. Paul’s speeches in Acts served as an initial mold by which several kinds of apologetic technique were later formed. In Luke’s narrative, a series of situations call for the charge and countercharge of apologetic speech, before both Jews and Romans. While Paul addresses a non-Jewish audience in only two of his speeches—neither of which are apologetic—the charges raised by Jewish leaders in the other four instances where he must defend himself are taken up by Roman magistrates. In Acts 21, Paul is beaten by the Jews in Jerusalem, rescued by Roman soldiers, and thereafter addresses the entire crowd in Jerusalem in chapter 22, where he declares he is making an apologia before them (22:1). |
