who wrote the book of act of the apostle
The author is not named in either volume. According to Church tradition dating from the 2nd century, he was the "Luke" named as a companion of the apostle Paul in three of the letters attributed to Paul himself; this view is still sometimes advanced, but "a critical consensus emphasizes the countless contradictions between the account in Acts and the authentic Pauline letters.") (An example can be seen by comparing Acts's accounts of Paul's conversion (Acts 9: 1 -- 31, 22: 6 -- 21, and 26: 9 -- 23) with Paul's own statement that he remained unknown to Christians in Judea after that event (Galatians 1: 17 -- 24).) He admired Paul, but his theology was significantly different from Paul's on key points and he does not (in Acts) represent Paul's views accurately. He was educated, a man of means, probably urban, and someone who respected manual work, although not a worker himself; this is significant, because more high-brow writers of the time looked down on the artisans and small business people who made up the early church of Paul and were presumably Luke's audience.