About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).

Since Luke-Acts was originally a single work, it is important to note that the purpose of Acts is normally examined in conjunction with the Book of Luke.

In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

Many believe this group of texts comes from the original Book of Acts by looking at the Byzantine text for the whole of the New Testament.

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The editors / authors of the Deuteronomistic history cite a number of sources, including ( for example ) a " Book of the Acts of Solomon " and, frequently, the " Annals of the Kings of Judah " and a separate book, " Chronicles of the Kings of Israel ".

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The self-described purpose of Christianity is to provide people with what it holds to be the only valid path to salvation as announced by the apostles of what the Book of Acts describes as, The Way.

Christians explain that such selectivity is based on rulings made by early Jewish Christians in the Book of Acts, at the Council of Jerusalem, that, while believing gentiles did not need to fully convert to Judaism, they should follow some aspects of Torah like avoiding idolatry and fornication and blood, including, according to some interpretations, homosexuality.

According to Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.

That visit could not be the one referred to in the Book of Acts 27: 7, when Paul was on his voyage to Rome as a prisoner, and where he continued a prisoner for two years.

The Book of Acts contradicts the letters of Paul on many points, such as Paul's second trip to Jerusalem for an apostolic council.

The Book of Acts admits conflicts between Hebrews and Hellenists, and Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians, and Aramaic speakers and Greek speakers.

Acts of the Apostles ( Book 3, Chapter 14 )

By 1555 he had completed his work on the New Testament, finishing with the Acts and the Gospels ( he omitted only the brief second and third Epistles of John and the Book of Revelation ).

The Book of Acts portrays the disciples of John as eventually merging into the followers of Jesus ( Acts 18: 24-19: 6 ), a development not reported by the Gospels except for the early case of Andrew, Simon Peter's brother ( John 1: 35-42 ).

John Foxe's Foxe's Book of Martyrs | Book of Martyrs, officially titled Acts and Monuments, which took a positive view of John's reign

Luke, who wrote the Gospel of Luke, was a physician who lived around AD 30 to 130 ( exact years are not known ), and he also wrote the Book of Acts in the Bible.

In the last chapter of the Book of Acts, widely attributed to Luke, we find several accounts in the first person also affirming Luke's presence in Rome including Acts 28: 16: " And when we came to Rome ..." According to some accounts, Luke also contributed to authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrews.

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Didymus reports that the work transmitted as speech 11 of Demosthenes ( Against the Letter of Philip ) could be found in almost identical form in Book 7 of Anaximenes ' Philippica, and many scholars regard the work as a historiographic composition by Anaximenes.

The World Fact Book also reports that the military service age and obligation is 18 – 25 years of age for selective compulsory military service ; 16 years of age or younger with parental consent, for voluntary service ( 2009 ).

Marcus Tullius Cicero reports that Greek philosophers considered misogyny to be caused by gynophobia, a fear of women .< ref name =" Cicero "> Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tusculanae Quaestiones, Book 3, Chapter 11.

In the Experimenta Nova Book III Chapter 20 von Guericke reports on a barometer he had constructed and its application to weather forecasting.

Herodotus reports the campaign of the pharaoh in his Histories, Book 2: 159:

The statement was issued in response to reports that the name of the Smithsonian Institute was being improperly used to lend credibility to the claims of those looking to support the events of the Book of Mormon.

Just as in the 7th century Chinese History of Northern Dynasties and the Book of Zhou, an inscription in the Iranian language, Sogdian, reports the Turks to be a subgroup of the Huns.

Historic reports of giant pike, caught in nets in Ireland in the late 19th century, of, were researched by Fred Buller and published in " The Domesday Book of Mammoth Pike ".

Foreign press reports in the West called the work " The Little Red Book " reflecting its common small size and bright cover, not without irony.

" This was done on the instruction of Cromwell, as Fox reports in his Book of Acts and Monuments ", wrote Sherbrook in his remarkable account.

After that, Cronkite reminded the viewers one final time that it had now been confirmed that the President was dead, that Vice President Johnson was now the President and was to be sworn in ( which had occurred just as Cronkite received the bulletin confirming the President's death ), that Governor Connally's condition was still unknown but many reports said that he was still alive, and that there was no report of whether the assassin had been captured ( despite the earlier reports of arrests at the Texas School Book Depository ).

Sally Ledger writes in " Wilde Women and The Yellow Book: The Sexual Politics of Aestheticism and Decadence ", s far as the newspapers were concerned, Wilde was accompanied to his trail by The Yellow Book, and such media reports cemented in the cultural

As Josephus reports in Jewish Antiquities ( Book XVIII, Chapter 5, 4 ): Herodias, [...], was married to Herod, the son of Herod the Great by Mariamne II, the daughter of Simon the High Priest.

Other men who ( by some reports ) were designated as successors, including Book of Mormon witnesses David Whitmer and Oliver Cowdery, had been excommunicated from the church.

These were deliberately siphoned away from Blue Book, leaving Blue Book to deal with the more trivial reports.

In 1955, the Air Force decided that the goal of Blue Book should be not to investigate UFO reports, but rather to reduce the number of unidentified UFO reports to a minimum.

Blue Book ’ s explanations of UFO reports were not universally accepted, however, and critics — including some scientists — suggested that Project Blue Book was engaged in questionable research or, worse, perpetrating cover up.

The UFO chase made national news, and the police submitted detailed reports to Blue Book.

However, researcher Brad Sparks, citing research from the May, 1970 issue of NICAP's UFO Investigator, reports that the last day of Blue Book activity was actually January 30, 1970.