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See J. Nunes Careira, “Formen des Geschichtdenkens in altorientalischer und altestamentlicher Geschichtschreibung,” Biblische Zeitschrift 31 (1987), pp. 38–57. The article is instructive because the author assumes the existence of a Mesopotamian historiography and points out its poverty instance by instance.

H. G. Rawlinson, India, a Short Cultural History (New York: Praeger, 1952).

There are so many contradictions between the Paul of the Book of Acts and the Paul we know from his own letters—differences in theology, biography, chronology and geography—that it makes quite impossible to accept Luke’s narratives at face value. See the famous study of this problem by John Knox, Chapters in a Life of Paul (Macon, GA: Mercer Univ. Press, rev. ed. 1987).

Epictetus, Discourses 1.9.13–15, in W. A. Old-father, tr., Epictetus, Loeb Classical Library (London: Heinemann, 1925).

Fragment 29 in Cora E. Lutz, “Musonius Rufus: ‘The Roman Socrates, ’ ” Yale Classical Studies 10 (1947), pp. 132–133.

Augustine, On the Trinity 4.16.

In Acts 16:27–28, Paul is said to have prevented the suicide of his Philippian jailer, no doubt in order to convert him.

See further Fred Rosner, “Suicide in Biblical, Talmudic, and Rabbinic Writings,” Tradition 11/2 (1970), pp. 25–40.

Josephus, The Jewish War 7.320–388.

Josephus, The Jewish War 3.362–382.