Dr Bock
I;ve been browsing through your blog for some time. Finding this series of post, I discovered there are still people who argue Jesus didn't live. I remember Wells but that it. Anyway, I have a question about Acts. A scholar by the name of Pervo has been recently citied on a very hostile anti-Christian blog. I haven’t traced down his work to see if he's represented fairly, but the blogger claims that Pervo and "many other new scholarly studies" have "shown powerfully and persuasively that not only is Acts a second century document, but that the same author idea is also incorrect."

He argues that the only real link between the two is the opening verses. Since these are the only two places (so he says) where the authors (I believe same author) use this type of classical Greek, he argues that neither an original to the texts. In his words again, "these verses are evidence of a second-century Christian scribe who wanted to strengthen the early Christian testimony by linking these two works together. Apart from the openings, there is nothing in these two works that links them. Sever the openings, and we have two anonymous, separate works. Pure and simple."

I know enough not to trust any random blogger, but I wanted to know what your response may be.
Thanks!