Reflecting a recent trend across academic disciplines, New Testament scholars are beginning to explore the concept of time and temporality, a concept not well-developed in the field. This article surveys this scholarship from the basis of three inter-related categories: social memory and historical narrative; queer and feminist theory; and apocalypticism and messianism. It addresses the question: How does the concept of time (generally, the idea of continual change) and temporality (concepts and orientations related to the experience of time) serve historical, literary, and theological aims in the New Testament? Further, the article proposes new areas of research that would expand on earlier work and also draw upon the burgeoning field of time and temporality in other disciplines.

In Dating Acts in Its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts, Karl L. Armstrong argues for an early date for Acts of the Apostles, around 64 CE. Engaging protracted debates regarding the dating, for middle range (70-90 CE) or late (after 90 CE), Armstrong seeks to demonstrate that scholars upholding these dates have used flawed methodologies and have not adequately considered the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts that underlie the text. He employs a historiographical approach, along with textual criticism and linguistics, asserting that the combination of these methods corrects the inadequate empirical methods and assumptions of other scholars. His understanding of historiography is post structural and thus chiefly concerned with the self-conscious selection and interpretation of sources. Given that Armstrong is arguing for a date for Acts within only a few decades of the late date assigned by

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