The Historical Evidence for the Virgin Birth

by Vincent Taylor, B.D. (Lond.)

Clarendon Press

Oxford

1920

[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]
[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]
[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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