Nuovi commenti agli Atti degli Apostoli. Saggio bibliografico

This paper takes into consideration some comments on the Acts of the Apostles published among the most publicized series in the last decade without prejudice to the value of others commentaries. For each one of them, a fundamental characteristic is highlighted by means of a subtitle and a respective critical presentation: J. Jervell: The Jewish Tendency of Acts; C.K. Barrett: The Acts as a Historical Work; C.H.Talbert: The Acts in their Cultural Context; B. Witherington III: The Acts as a Rhetorical and Historiographical work; J. Taylor: The becoming of the Acts; M.-É. Boismard: The Western Text of Acts. All these comments are characterized by a reinstating of Acts as a historical document, useful for the reconstruction of the history of primitive Christianity. This is a novelty, if we consider that the prevalent tendency in some influential works of the past was to doubt whether the accounts of Acts could be treated as historical or not.