Here we have a
phenomenon not without parallel in the history
of other religions, as Lohmeyer notes — for
example in Islam and in Mormonism — namely a shift from a first center to a second within the first generation
of believers; and it is all the more
striking that the evidence is preserved in Acts, whose whole interest and orientation centers in Jerusalem, not in Galilee, and whose earliest traditions are almost exclusively those
of the capital city.
I don't know, but it
struck me as odd that there were no balancing
examples where publishers trade favors with each other for positive blurbs, or any exploration
of whether this is a solely indie
phenomenon.