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reconstruction of Acts is that of Dr. C. Clemen. His three chief sources (with which he closely connects other shorter sources, ¢.¢., a source for vi. 1-6) are named (1) Historia Hellenistarum, H.H., vi. 9, 10, vii. 1-36, 35-584, 59>, viii, 1>, xi. 19-21, 248, 26: this source Clemen regards as very old and trustworthy; (2) Historia Petri, H.Pe., consisting chiefly of i.-v., and of some passages in- serted in H.H., vzz., vi. 7, 8, 11-15, vii. 37, 60, viii. 2, viii. 4-13, 18-24, the account of Simon Magus; viii. 26-40, the conversion of the Ethiopian; (3) Historia Pauli, H.Pa., xiii. 1-xxviii. 30, 31, a source which may have originated in a diary kept by Luke on a journey to Rome called (4) Itinerarium Pauli, I.Pa., containing the “We” sections, and combined with (3) by the first of the three redactors. The first redactor is simply R., and to him are attributed other additions besides the “We” sections to the Historia Pauli, although no ‘‘tendency’’ can be assigned to him, ε/., e¢.g., xiv. 8-18, xvi. 23>-34, xvii. 19-33, the Athenian discourse, etc. The two other redactors are much more pronounced: one, Redactor Judaicus, R.J., writing 93-117 a.p., compiled and revised the above sources, making many additions, e.g., the miracles at Lydda and Joppa, ix. 23-43, and for the most part the Cornelius history, x. 1-xi. 18; xvi. 1-3, xxi. 20-26, etc.; and finally, the third redactor, Redactor Antijudaicus, R.A., writing probably in the time of Hadrian, with the object of counterbalancing the wrong tendencies of his pre- decessor; to him we owe, before all, ix. 1-31, Paul’s conversion, xii. 1-25, xv. 5-12, 19, 23-33, 41, and additions to the speech at Miletus, xx. 19>, 25-35, 388. Other instances will be found in the commentary of the manner in which the additions of “these two antipodes,”’ R.J. and R.A., are given precisely by Clemen, even to parts of verses, and it is no unfriendly critic (Heitmiiller, u. s., p. 128) who points out that of the five journeys of Paul to Jeru- salem mentioned in Acts no less than four are referred by Clemen to his redactors, which is fatal to the historical character of these visits: ix. 26, R.A.; xi. 90, R.A.; xv. 1-33, R.J. and R.A.; and xviii. 22, R.; the last journey, xxi., is found in the source H.Pa., and this according to Clemen is a journey identical with Gal. ii. 1. There is indeed no occasion to look to a conservative critic like Zéckler for a sharp criticism of the ingenious but purely subjective theory of Clemen; the latter’s immediate successor in the same attempt to split up Acts into its component parts not only describes Clemen’s theory as over-ingenious, but speaks of the somewhat mechanical way in which his Redactor Judaicus brings Paul into the synagogue, only to allow the Apostle to be at once expelled therefrom by the