8 February 58 A.D.? Paul Sailed From Malta to Rome—Maybe on the Date
8 February 58 A.D.? Paul Sailed From Malta to Rome—Maybe on the Date No author. “Paul Sailed from Malta to Rome—Maybe.” Christianity.com. N.d. http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1-300/paul-sailed-from-malta-to-rome-maybe-11629576.html . Accessed 14 Jul 2014. Identifying events in the New Testament with ancient dates is tricky. Controversy swirls around attempts to date of happenings in the lives of Christ, Paul, and other Biblical figures. Scholars are always excited when they can link the chronology of the gospels and the Acts of the Apostles with dates that can be determined from non-Biblical sources. Because we are given so much detail about Paul, not only by Luke, but by Paul himself in his letters to churches, historians have many facts that they can attempt to tie in with ancient writings and archaeological finds. We know, for example, that Paul was brought before Gallio the year Gallio was proconsul of Achaia. We know that he...