A course by Omid Safi at Colgate University A 1998 course by Donald Binder at the Anglican School of Theology examines the “Acts of the Apostles, with special attention to its social context within the Greco-Roman-Jewish world of the first two centuries “is a multidisciplinary introduction both to the region conventionally referred to as the Middle East, and also to the academic discipline of Middle Eastern Studies. In other words, it is as much a study of the people, region, religion, history, and culture of the region as it is about the politics of studying that region.”
