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Excerpt from The Contents and Origin of the Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 1: Critically Investigated
The present work of Professor Zeller is so well known as to need no introduction. Following out the hints of Schnecken-burger, the importance of which had been apprehended by Baur and Schwegler, the distinguished author wrote a series of elaborate articles in the Tübingen Journal. These were subsequently revised, for the purpose of a separate work. The publication thence resulting is an epoch-making one, evincing the highest critical ability, and propounding a tendency which actuated the writer of the Acts, in harmony with the leading opinions of the Tübingen School. The impossibility of reconciling the Apostle Paul's statements and conduct, as seen in his Epistles, with those in the Acts, and the conciliatory motive which prompted and moulded the latter, are set forth with great skill.
As the work was published in 1854, it has been thought desirable to give a specimen of the later literature on the same book of the New Testament, for which purpose Overbeck's Introduction to his edition of De Welte's Commentary has been selected.
That the views of Zeller are substantially correct can hardly be doubted, though some details are perhaps pushed to an extreme.
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