This volume brings together two important historical studies by Professor Hengel, Acts and the History of Earliest Christianity, and Property and Riches in the Early Church. Together they give a vivid and clearly written picture of life and values in the first days of Christianity. "Remarkably easy reading and well within the reach of those who are shy of works of scholarship" (Expository Times). Martin Hengel was Professor of New Testament and Early Judaism in the University of Tubingen.