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While I was at Bible College (a long time ago now, or so it seems) I wrote at article about missionary principles in the Book of Acts. As I studied the various Bible Encyclopedia articles on the cities of Acts I was surprised to find how many of them where based on William M. Ramsay’s 1907 work on the subject, which at the that time, had not been superseded. For that reason I am very pleased to be able to make it available free of charge.

William M. Ramsay [1851-1939], The Cities of St Paul. Their Influence on His Life and Thought. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. Hbk. pp.452. This title is in the Public Domain

Table of Contents

Part I – Paulinism in the Graeco-Roman World

§ I. Introduction
§ II. The Pauline Philosophy of History
§ III. The Pauline Contrasted with the Method .
§ IV. St Paul and Hellenism
§ V. Hellenism and Hebraism
§ VI. The Empire as the World’s Hope
§ VII. Paulinism in the Roman Empire
§ VIII. Conclusion

PART II – Tarsus

§ I. Introduction
§ II. The Situation of Tarsus
§ III. Tarsus and the Plain of Cilicia
§ IV. Tarsus, the River and the Sea
§ V. Tarsus and the Cilician Gates
§ VI. The Ionians in Early Tarsus
§ VII. Tarsus as an Oriental Town
§ VIII. Legends of Early Tarsus
§ IX. The Religion of Tarsus
§ X. The Revival of Greek Influence
§ XI. Tarsus as the Greek Colony Antiocheia
§ XII. The Greeks in Tarsus-Antiocheia
§ XIII. The Jews in Tarsus 169
§ XIV. The Jews settled in Tarsus in l 7 l B.C.
§ XV. Tarsus the Hellenistic City
§ XVI. Tarsus as Capital of · the Roman Province Cilicia
§ XVII. The Oriental Spirit ‘in Tarsus
§ XVIII. Romans otherwise Tarsians
§ XIX. The Tarsian Democracy
§·XX. Athenodorus of Tarsus
§ XXI. The Reform of the Tarsian Constitution by Athenodorus
§ XXII. The University of Tarsus
§ XXIII. Tarsus under the Empire

Part III – Antioch

§ I. The City and its Foundation
§ II. The Jews in Pisidian Antioch
§ III. The Greek Colonists in Early Antioch
§ IV. The Phrygians of Antioch
§ V. Antioch a City of Galatia
§ VI. Character of the Original Hellenic City
§ VII. The Roman Colony of Pisidian Antioch
§ VIII. Hellenism in Pisidian Antioch
§ IX. The Religion of Antioch
§ X. First Appearance of Paul and Barnabas in the Antiochian Synagogue
§ XL Paul’s First Address to a Galatian Audience
§ XII. The Approach to the Gentiles
§ XIII. The Door of the Gentiles

Part IV – Iconium

§ I. Natural and National Character
§ II. The Religion of Iconium
§III. The Territory of Iconium
§IV. Iconium a City of Galatia
§ V. The Constitution of the Hellenic City Iconium
§VII. Iconium as a Roman City
§VIII. The Roman Colony of Iconium
§IX. St Paul at Iconium
§ x. The Christian Cults of Iconium

Part V – Derbe

Part VI – Lystra

§I. Situation and Character
§II. Character of the Five Cities

Part VII – St Paul in the Roman World

Notes