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William M. Ramsay

Ramsay was an archaeologist and New Testament scholar who was raised an atheist. However, in setting out to disprove the historical and factual nature of the travels of St. Paul, Ramsay discovered that the book of Acts was accurate down to the smallest detail. In 1896, he published his book, Saint Paul: The Traveller and Roman Citizen, a historical commentary on the book of Acts (available at the Logos product page). You can read a brief bio of Ramsay at Conservapedia.com. Of Ramsay, F.F. Bruce said: “My debt to the writings of Sir William Ramsay is evident throughout the work, and I am repeatedly amazed by scholars of a later date who seem unaware of the contributions of peculiar value which he made to certain areas of New Testament study” (The Acts of the Apostles [Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990] xvi).

Ramsay: The Teaching of Paul

Submitted by wmadan on Sat, 11/14/2009 - 6:56pm
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For anyone still using L3 I have created a PBBi resource of William M. Ramsay's book The Teaching of Paul in Terms of the Present Day. You can download it by clicking the attachment link below.

This will be the last PBB resource I will make for L3 since L4 is now out and the means for making PBBs for L4 won't be released by Logos until next year. I am hoping that Logos makes a way to easily compile all of the existing PBBs I have made for L3, so that once the new PBB tool is released I can get them ready for L4.

Enjoy!

Gracei,
Bill

Ramsay: Was Christ Born at Bethlehem?

Submitted by wmadan on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 2:07pm
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I have created a PBBi resource of William M. Ramsay's book, Was Christ Born at Bethlehem? You can download it by clicking the attachment link below.

Ramsay discusses the question of the location of Christ's birth in light of the archaelogical proofs and historical facts that support the Biblical claim as recorded in the gospel of Luke.

Enjoy!

Gracei,
Bill

William Mitchell Ramsay

Submitted by tcblack on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 7:47am
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Classical and New Testament scholar; archaeologist.

Born at Glasgow, Scotland, Ramsay was educated at Aberdeen and Oxford. As professor of humanity (Latin) at Aberdeen (1886–1911), he was able to spend many of the long vacations in Asia Minor, continuing his research as an archaeologist, a practice he had begun in 1880. He soon made himself the foremost authority of his day on the geography and early history of the area. His Historicali Geography of Asia Minor (1890) and The Church in the Roman Empire before A.D. 170 (1893) remain of basic importance for their subjects. In 1883 he had discovered the funerary inscription of Abercius, bishop of Hierapolis in the late second century.

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