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Other theories about Acts ' sources are more controversial.

Some historians believe that Acts borrows phraseology and plot elements from Euripides ' play The Bacchae.

Some feel that the text of Acts shows evidence of having used the Jewish historian Josephus as a source ( in which case it would have to have been written sometime after 94 AD ).

For example, R. I. Pervo dates Acts to the first quarter of the 2nd century.