The ancestor Abraham was frequently employed in the ethnic reasoning of Second Temple Judaism, and is mentioned considerably more often in Luke than in the other synoptic Gospels. Focusing on these ancient uses of Abraham, and building upon the best of recent scholarship on ethnicity, race and racialization in antiquity, Benko offers up an insightful reading of how Luke/Acts creates space for Gentiles as children of Abraham within the Roman empire. Importantly, Benko does this without sugar-coating passages which denigrate non-believing Jews. Instead, he asks readers hard questions about how Christian texts such as Luke/Acts have contributed to Christian anti-Semitism, while also offering pastoral insights into the way forward. I highly recommended this book. --Shelly Matthews, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University.