The Bearing of Recent Discovery on the Trustworthiness of the New Testament

Ramsay began his career as an archaelogist, convinced that the events located in the New Testament could not be historical in nature. He set out to study the available evidence in an attempt to disprove the historicity of the New Testament. What he found, however, led him to believe firmly in the historicity of the New Testament. Ramsay wrote extensively during his career on various topics, mostly relating to the life of Paul and the book of Acts. This book is the summation of his findings and is a classic must-read defense of New Testament authenticity.

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Below is a chapter listing of topics covered in this book:

PART I. PRELIMINARY

I. Explanation of Method and Order
II. Introductory Statement

PART II. THE LECTURES

III. The First Change of Judgment
IV. Iconium and the Frontier
V. The Language Spoken at Iconium
VI. General Impression of Trustworthiness in the Acts
VII. Trial Scenes in the Acts
VIII. The Magicians in the Acts of the Apostles
IX. Simon the Magician
X. Paul and the Magicians
XI. The Magi at the Birth of Jesus
XII. Sergius Paullus and his Relation to Christian Faith
XIII. " Salvation” as a Pagan and a Christian Term
XIV. Prayers for Salvation among the Pagans of Asia Minor
XV. The Imperial Salvation
XVI. Trustworthiness of the Acts, Chapters I. to XII
XVII. Rhoda the Slave-Girl
XVIII. Approach to the Gospel of Luke
XIX. Luke's Account of the First Census
XX. The Augustan Census-System
XXL When Quirinius was Governing Syria
XXII. Analogies and Fulfilment of Prophecy
XXIII. “Your Poets have said"

PART III. ASSOCIATED QUESTIONS

XXIV. The Old Testament in the Roman Phrygia
XXV. The Name of the Evangelist Luke
XXVI. The Firstfruits of Achaia
XXVII. The Pauline Churches in the Third Century