CONTENTS.

CHAP. I.

NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF THE INQUIRY. .....

CHAP. II.

THL VULGAR ERA, AND THE DEATH OF HEROD. .... 15

CHAP III.

PROBABLE DATE OF OUR SAVIOUR'S BIRTH. ........

SECTION I.

Probable Year of Our Saviour's Birth. .......

rth. ............... ibid.

SECTION II.

Probable Month of our Saviour's Birth. ......

CHAP IV.

DIFFICULTIES ATTENDING THE PROBABLE DATE OF

OUR SAVIOUR'S BIRTH. ........................ 118

SECTION I.

To what Taxing St. Luke, ch. ii. v. 1 and 2, does not

allude. ......

............: ........ ibid.

SECTION II.

To what Taring St. Luke, ch. ü. č. 1 and 2, does probably

· allude, .,..,..,

.........................

142

SECTION III.

Page

The Date of the Taxing to which St. Luke, ch. ii. v. 1

and 2, probably alludes.

. 160

SECTION IV.

An Objection to the Correctness of the preceding Calculations

and Dates considered and answered. ....... ........ 168

CHAP. V.

THE PROBABLE DATE OF OUR SAVIOUR'S BAPTISM... 175

CHAP. VI.

DIFFICULTIES ATTENDING THE PROBABLE DATE OF

OUR SAVIOUR'S BAPTISM. ....

...... 189

SECTION I.

St. Luke computed the fifteenth year of the Government of

Tiberius from the Date of his Proconsular Empire. .. .. ibid.

SECTION II.

Pontius Pilate was Governor of Judea in J. P. 4739. .. .. 222

SECTION III.

Considerations upon John, chap. ii. v. 20. ............... 230

CHAP. VII.

PROBABLE DATE OF OUR SAVIOUR'S CRUCIFIXION. .. 241

SECTION 1.

Duration of our Saviour's Ministry. ................. ibid.

SECTION II.

Page

Probable Year of our Saviour's Crucifixion. ............ 293

SECTION III.

Probable Month and Day of our Saviour's Crucifixion. .... 299

CONCLUSION. ......

........ 336

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE...

A List of the principal Works and Editions of Works quoted

or referred to............ .................. 343