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Luke the Historian in the Light of Research is unavailable, but you can change that!

Throughout the nineteenth century, historical research and the rise of higher criticism inspired a new interest in the Gospel of Luke. In this volume, derived from a collection of lectures delivered at the Northfield Christian Workers’ Conference in 1919, Robertson defends supernatural origin of the Bible in general and the inspiration of Luke in particular. He discusses the authorship and dating...

CHAPTER IX THE ROMANCE OF THE CENSUS IN LUKE’S GOSPEL1 “This was the first enrolment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to enrol themselves, every one to his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David; to enrol himself with Mary, who was betrothed to him, being great with child” (Luke 2:2–5). Was Jesus born in Bethlehem? Did the Romans
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