The Historical Evidence for the Virgin Birth
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Chapters (55)
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter I. The Virgin Birth And The New Testament Outside The First And Third Gospels
- I. St. Paul
- II. Q
- III. St. Mark's Gospel
- IV. Acts
- V. The Epistle to the Hebrews
- VI. The Fourth Gospel
- VII. The Pastoral and the Catholic Epistles and the Apocalypse
- VIII. Summary
- Chapter II. The Virgin Birth And The Third Gospel
- I. Narratives and Passages Said to be Inconsistent With the View
- (a) Lk. iii. 22, according to the “Western Text”
- (b) The Lukan Genealogy and Lk. iii. 23
- (c) The Narratives of Lk. ii
- (d) The References to Joseph and Mary in Lk. ii
- (e) Lk. ii. 5
- II. The Passage Lk. i. 34 f
- (a) The Interpretation of Lk. i. 34 f
- (b) The Purport of the Angelic Announcement in Lk. i. 30-3
- (c) Reasons for regarding Lk. i. 34 f. as a Later Insertion
- III. Summary and Conclusion
- Chapter III. St. Luke and the Virgin Birth
- I. Lk. i. 34 f. and the Textual Question
- II. Linguistic and Stylistic Examination of Lk. i. 34 f
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- b.
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- III. Summary and Conclusion
- Chapter IV. The Place Of The Virgin Birth In The Third Gospel
- I. A Suggested Theory
- II. Literary Conditions Under Which the Gospels Were Written
- III. The Objections to Which the Above Theory is Exposed
- IV. Certain Consequences
- Chapter V. The Virgin Birth And The First Gospel
- I. The Characteristics of the Genealogy
- II. The Genuineness of Mt. i, ii
- III. The Unity of Mt. i, ii
- 1. The Genealogy
- 2. The Passage Mt. i. 18-25
- IV. Implications, Sources, and Results
- Appendix To Chapter V. The Textual Problem of Mt. i. 16
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- Chapter VI. The Historical Question: Its Limits And Bearings
- I. The Virgin Birth in the First and Third Gospels
- II. The Date of the Gospels in Relation to the Virgin Birth Tradition
- III. The Relation of the Question of the Historical Value of the Gospels to the Problem
- IV. The Question of Alternative Theories
- V. Doctrinal Considerations
- Index
- Footnotes
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