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Publisher: London Constable and company LtdPublication date: 1918Subjects: LiteratureNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1896 in 423 pages; Subjects: Church history; Christianity; Religion / Biblical Biography / New Testament; Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament; Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament; Religion / Christianity / History; Religion / Christian Church / History; ... Read more

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AN INTERESTING STUDY OF THE APOSTLE PAUL'S LIFE AND TRAVELS
Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (1851-1939) was a Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar, as well as Professor of Classical Archaeology at Oxford University. He is now probably most remembered for his studies (in what is now Turkey and Asia Minor) of St. Paul's missionary journeys and of Christianity in the early Roman Empire, and for his endorsement of the historical accuracy of Luke and the Book of Acts.

In this 1895 book, Ramsay begins by saying, "The aim of our work is to treat its subject as a department of history and of literature.Christianity was not merely a religion, but also a system of life and action; and its introduction by Paul amid the society of the Roman Empire produced changes of momentous consequence, which the historian must study."He added, "It is, therefore, unnecessary to touch on the authenticity of the Epistles; but the question as to the date (of) the composition, and the author of the Acts must be discussed.If the main position of this book is admitted, it will furnish a secure basis for the Epistles to rest on."

He states later, "I began with a mind unfavorable to (Acts) ... It was gradually borne in upon me that in various details the narrative showed marvellous truth.In fact, beginning with the fixed idea that the work was essentially a second-century composition, and never relying on its evidence as trustworthy for first-century conditions, I gradually came to find it a useful ally in some obscure and difficult investigations."

Ramsay stresses the supernatural character of the books he discusses: "You must make up your own minds to accept it or to reject it; but you cannot cut out the marvellous from the rest, nor can you believe that either Paul or this writer was a mere victim of hallucinations."He added, "when Luke or Paul use such language as 'the Spirit suffered them not,' they refer to some definite and clear manifestiion, and not to a guidance which became apparent only through the results."

This book, like all of Ramsay's works, remains in print today as a testimony to its continuing value to students of the New Testament.

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I found this book to be very insightful. It gives you information about Paul that you would likely never discover elsewhere. This book is still very relevant as other reviewers have noted.

The author obviously takes a very careful and skillful approach to writing about Apostle Paul.

Unfortunately, the author lost me at certain parts (where seemingly excessive detail was given at certain minor points) and I found thatthe book would have appealed more to me if he looked at things from a macro-level a bit more.

But that being said, this book is exactly what it is intended to be. It isn't supposed to be surface level. A fine work indeed.

Sir William Ramsay, Historical Evidence, and St. Paul
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Why is a book that was first published in 1895 still relevant to us today?

To begin with, Sir William Ramsay was one of the leading archeologists and scholars of the time. Secondly, and most interestingly, he became convinced of the historical truth of the Book of Acts -- of Luke's account of Paul's journeys -- as the result of his direct investigation of the archeological record.

As Ramsay himself wrote, he originally began studying Acts as a guide to the second century history of Asia Minor. Because he accepted the established scholarly authorities of the day, he started by believing that the Book of Acts was written a century after the events that it describes. However, he soon discovered that the actual historical data pointed to the middle of the first century as the only possible time of Acts' writing. More importantly, he found that the many small historical details of Paul's travels were dramatically confirmed by archeological and documentary evidence. He thus came to regard Acts as one of the most historically reliable documents of the ancient world.

Ramsay's famous book "St. Paul the Traveller and Roman Citizen," broke new ground by demonstrating that historical reliability to a popular audience.

Is Ramsay's book still useful more than a century later? It is dated in some respects. A few of his conclusions have been superseded. Also, much additional evidence has been discovered. But anyone wanting to understand the relationship of historical evidence to the book of Acts will still find this book to be of use. It was the starting point for my own research, when I wrote my book "Evidence and Paul's Journeys." In many ways, my book is simply an updating of Ramsay's work.

I would highly recommend "St. Paul the Traveller" to anyone who is interested in the Bible and historical evidence.

Sir William Ramsay, Historical Evidence, and St. Paul
*******

Why is a book that was first published in 1895 still relevant to us today?

To begin with, Sir William Ramsay was one of the leading archeologists and scholars of the time. Secondly, and most interestingly, he became convinced of the historical truth of the Book of Acts -- of Luke's account of Paul's journeys -- as the result of his direct investigation of the archeological record.

As Ramsay himself wrote, he originally began studying Acts as a guide to the second century history of Asia Minor. Because he accepted the established scholarly authorities of the day, he started by believing that the Book of Acts was written a century after the events that it describes. However, he soon discovered that the actual historical data pointed to the middle of the first century as the only possible time of Acts' writing. More importantly, he found that the many small historical details of Paul's travels were dramatically confirmed by archeological and documentary evidence. He thus came to regard Acts as one of the most historically reliable documents of the ancient world.

Ramsay's famous book "St. Paul the Traveller and Roman Citizen," broke new ground by demonstrating that historical reliability to a popular audience.

Is Ramsay's book still useful more than a century later? It is dated in some respects. A few of his conclusions have been superseded. Also, much additional evidence has been discovered. But anyone wanting to understand the relationship of historical evidence to the book of Acts will still find this book to be of use. It was the starting point for my own research, when I wrote my book "Evidence and Paul's Journeys." In many ways, my book is simply an updating of Ramsay's work.

I would highly recommend "St. Paul Traveller" to anyone who is interested in the Bible and historical evidence. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Hodder and Stoughton in 1908 in 503 pages; Subjects: Christian antiquities; Turkey; Cities and towns; Bible; Christianity and other religions; Hellenism; Tarsus (Turkey); Antioch (Turkey); Konya (Turkey); Middle East; History / Middle East / General; Religion / Biblical Biography / New Testament; Religion / Biblical Commentary / New Testament; Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament; Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament; Religion / Christianity / History; Religion / Christianity / General; Religion / Christian Church / History; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; ... Read more

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AN INTERESTING HISTORICAL SURVEY OF PAUL'S ENVIRONMENT
Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (1851-1939) was a Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar, as well as Professor of Classical Archaeology at Oxford University. He is now probably most remembered for his studies (in what is now Turkey and Asia Minor) of St. Paul's missionary journeys and of Christianity in the early Roman Empire, and for his endorsement of the historical accuracy of Luke and the Book of Acts.

This 1907 book of lectures (subtitled, "Their Influence on His Life and Thought") surveys the various cities through which Paul journeyed ("Our plan will be to describe the Hellenic cities in which Paul lived and worked, to attempt to determine the varying tone and spirit of each ... and thus to show at least the variety of experience through which Paul passed"; "some inferences will be drawn in the concluding part as to the influence of the Hellenic city life on Paul's personal character").Some representative quotations:

"I felt that in Paul, for the first time since Aristotle, Greek philosophy made a real step forward."

"Paul felt a strong sympathy with the freedom of life and thought which marked the Greek society, and amid which he had grown up in Tarsus---which no one that has ever experienced it can willingly abandon."

"He perceived in a flash of illumination that the universal Hellenism and the universalised Jewish right of inheritance to God's promise and grace, must be co-extensive; that each was the complement of the other.He made the other Apostles see this, at least sooner than they would themselves have understood it.The barrier was broken once for all.The universalism of Christianity completed the transformation of Hellenism."

"Paul was attempting to gather together into his ideal of a Christianized society all that was true and Divine in the older world of thought and life."

In the book's concluding essay, Ramsay says about his rejection of higher critical ideas about the Bible, "I have grown out of them through the force of unconscious life under the impulse of experience, rather than reasoned myself out of them through conscious argument."

This book, like all of Ramsay's works, remains in print today as a testimony to its continuing value to students of the New Testament. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1908Original Publisher: Hodder and StoughtonSubjects: BibleChurch historyBible. N.T. Epistles of PaulReligion / Biblical Biography / New TestamentReligion / Biblical Studies / New TestamentReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / Christian Church / HistoryNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: VITHE PERMANENCE OF RELIGION AT HOLY PLACES IN WESTERN ASIAIn the preceding article in this volume, describing the origin of the Ephesian cult of the Mother of God, the permanent attachment of religious awe to special localities was briefly mentioned. In that cult we found a survival or revival of the old paganism of Ephesus, viz., the worship of the Virgin Mother of Artemis. The persistence of those ancient beliefs and rites at the chief centres of paganism exercised so profound an influence on the history of Christianity in Asia Minor, that it is well to give a more detailed account of the facts, though even this account can only be a brief survey of a few examples selected almost by chance out of the innumerable cases which occur in all parts of the country. I shall take as the foundation of this article a paper read to the Oriental Congress held at London in autumn, 1902, and buried in the Transactions of the Congress, developing and improving the ideas expressed in that paper, and enlarging the number of examples.The strength of the old pagan beliefs did not escape the attention of the Apostle Paul; and his views on the subject affected his action as a missionary in the cities of Asia Minor, and can be traced in his letters. On the one hand, as the present writer has several times tried to prove, he regarded the Anatolian super... ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1908Original Publisher: Hodder and StoughtonSubjects: BibleChurch historyReligionReligionsAsia MinorPalestineMiddle EastTurkeyByzantine EmpireHistory / Middle East / GeneralReligion / Biblical Biography / New TestamentReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / Comparative ReligionReligion / HistoryReligion / Christian Church / HistoryNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: V. THE PEASANT GOD : THE CREATION, DESTRUCTION AND RESTORATION OF AGRICULTURE IN ASIA MINOR. THE PEASANT GOD:The Creation, Destruction And Restoration Of Agriculture In Asia MINOR.1[The following words, published a year after this article appeared in the Contemporary Review, express the central thought of my article so exactly from a totally different point of view, that I may be permitted to quote them as a motto: -- Thus The Men Of Inspiration Of The Fourteenth Century, The Chaucers And The Lanolands, Saw In The Typical AgriculturalLABOURER THE GREAT MORAL FIQURE OF THEIR WORLD. -- Rd. Heath in Con- temp. Rev., Jan., 1907, p. 84.]Where the mountains of Taurus rise sharp and high from the southern edge of the level plains of the great central plateau of Asia Minor, and near the point -- vague and never strictly defined on that flat, featureless land -- where Lycaonia and Cappadocia meet, there is a narrow well-wooded glen which runs up two or three miles southwards into the mountains. It ends in a theatre-shaped hollow, at the back of which the rocky sides of Taurus tower almost perpendicularly for some thousands of feet. At the foot of the cliffs is the source of a stream which gushes forth in many springs from the rock with a... ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1900Original Publisher: Hodder and StoughtonSubjects: Church historyReligion / Christianity / HistoryReligion / HistoryReligion / Christianity / GeneralReligion / Christian Church / HistoryNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: CHAPTER III.ST. PAUL'S FIRST JOURNEY AS A NARRATIVE OF TRA VEL.AFTER these topographical and historical details, it is proposed, as the next part of our task, to go over the first missionary journey as a plain narrative of travel and adventure, and to show how the references, which St. Paul in his letter to the Galatian churches makes to his experiences when he first preached to them, work in with the narrative in Acts xiii. and xiv. to produce a consistent picture. On the theory (which the present writer is concerned to maintain) that Acts xiii., xiv. are founded on, or even embody, with some slight modifications and additions, a document written under the immediate influence of Paul himself, it is absolutely necessary that the epistle should agree with and complete the narrative in Acts. Herein lies what is generally counted one of the strong points of the North-Galatian view: it is contended that the details of the visit to the Galatians mentioned in the epistle are inconsistent with the account of the journey in South Galatia given in Acts xiii., xiv. If that be the case, I fully acknowledge that the North-Galatian view must be adopted, in spite of the numerous difficulties attending it; but then, as I hope to show, it must be admitted that the account of the second journey in Acts xvi. is inaccurate in itself, and written by one who had not access to a trustworthy account of the facts.Let us try to r... ... Read more

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Originally published in 1908.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS BY A FAMED TRAVELER/ARCHAEOLOGIST
Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (1851-1939) was a Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar, as well as Professor of Classical Archaeology at Oxford University. He is now probably most remembered for his studies (in what is now Turkey and Asia Minor) of St. Paul's missionary journeys and of Christianity in the early Roman Empire, and for his endorsement of the historical accuracy of Luke and the Book of Acts.

This 1908 book contains articles that were published in various magazines (Ramsay notes that "Most of them have been profoundly modified and much enlarged")."Luke the Physician" is only one of the articles (although arguably the most famous).In this article, Ramsay asserts that "The writer of this history was a physician, and that fact is apparent throughout." Concerning the writer's style, he comments, "He expresses and thinks as a Greek that which was thought and expressed by a Hebrew."

The rest of the book contains Ramsay's comments, such as, "St. Paul was free from the prejudice; he found that the keenness and enthusiastic, passionate attention, which were lavished on athletic contests in the world where he had been brought up, furnished the best illustration for the spirit in which the Divine life must be lived."

This book, like all of Ramsay's works, remains in print today as a testimony to its continuing value to students of the New Testament. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Publisher: London : MacmillanPublication date: 1918Subjects: Ramsay, William, 1852-1916Chemists -- Great BritainNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more