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God’s openness to the future, as shown in intercessory prayers, is discussed perceptively by Patrick D. Miller in They Cried unto the Lord: The Form and Theology of Biblical Prayer (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994), chapter 8. See also David Noel Freedman, “Other Than Moses…Who Asks (or Tells) God to Repent?” BR, Winter 1985.

See Rosner, “Acts and Biblical History,” in Bruce W. Winter and Andrew D. Clarke, eds., The Book of Acts in Its Ancient Literary Setting (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans/Paternoster, 1994) vol. 1 of The Book of Acts in its First-Century Setting, in 6 vols., pp. 65–82.

R.P.C. and A.T. Hanson, The Bible Without Illusions (London/Philadelphia: SCM/Trinity, 1989), p. 57.

See Brian Rosner, “‘Written for us’: Paul’s View of Scripture,” in P.E. Satterthwaite and D.F. Wright, eds., A Pathway Into the Holy Scripture (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994), pp. 81–105.

See New Testament Apocrypha, vol. 1, p. 251; see pp. 252–278 for text.