The Divine in Acts and in Ancient Historiography

How do we understand the divine in the Book of Acts? The Old Testament? Hellenistic Judaism? Greco-Roman histories? Shauf compares and contrasts such themes as the nature of divine retribution, favoritism toward different peoples, and control over nature and human events---which also have a bearing on concepts of fate, chance, providence, angels. . . . 224 pages, softcover. Fortress.