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List Of Bible Dictionaries
A Bible dictionary is a reference work containing encyclopedic entries related to the Bible, typically concerning people, places, customs, doctrine and Biblical criticism. Bible dictionaries can be scholarly or popular in tone. The first dictionary of the Bible in English was the ''Christian Dictionarie'' (1612) of Thomas Wilson. Bible dictionaries of the 18th century Bible dictionaries of the 19th century Bible dictionaries of the 20th century *''Barnes's Bible Encyclopedia, Biographical, Geographical, Historical and Doctrinal'' (1903), edited by Charles Randall Barnes *''Standard Bible Dictionary'' (1909), edited by Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Jr. *''Temple Dictionary of the Bible'' (1910), edited by William Ewing and John Ebenezer Honeyman Thomson *''Universal Bible Dictionary'' (1914), edited by Augustus Robert Buckland and Arthur Lukyn Williams *''International Standard Bible Encyclopedia'' (1915), edited by James Orr *''A New Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith's Bible Dictionary 1863
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Archibald Alexander
Archibald Alexander (April 17, 1772 – October 22, 1851) was an American Presbyterian theologian and professor at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He served for 9 years as the President of Hampden–Sydney College in Virginia and for 39 years as Princeton Theological Seminary's first professor from 1812 to 1851. Early life Archibald Alexander was born at South River, Rockbridge County, Virginia, on April 17, 1772, son of William Alexander, a farmer of means. He was raised under the tuition and ministry of Presbyterian minister William Graham (1745–1799), a man who had been trained in theology by John Witherspoon. His grandfather, of Scottish descent, came from Ireland to Pennsylvania in 1736, and after a residence of two years removed to Virginia. William, father of Archibald, was a farmer and trader. His nephew was the American novelist William Alexander Caruthers (1802–1846). At the age of ten Archibald was sent to the academy of William Graham at Timber Ridge me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith's Bible Dictionary
''Smith's Bible Dictionary'', originally named ''A Dictionary of the Bible'', is a 19th-century Bible dictionary containing upwards of four thousand entries that became named after its editor, William Smith. Its popularity was such that condensed dictionaries appropriated the title, "Smith's Bible Dictionary". The original dictionary was published as a three-volume set in 1863, in London and Boston, USA. This was followed by ''A Concise Dictionary of the Bible'' (1865), intended for the general reader and students, and ''A Smaller Dictionary of the Bible'' (1866), for use in schools. ''A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible'' (1868), was published simultaneously in London and New York, and a four-volume ''Dictionary of the Bible'' (1871), was published in Boston, amongst other things incorporating the appendices of the first edition into the main body of the text. In the UK, a corresponding second edition of the first volume in two parts, edited by Smith and J. M. Fuller, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Malcom
Howard Malcom (January 19, 1799 – March 25, 1879) was an American educator and Baptist minister. He wrote several noteworthy literature about his missionary travels in Burma and was pastor of churches in Hudson, New York, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also served as president of Georgetown College, Bucknell University and Drexel University College of Medicine. Early life He was born on January 19, 1799 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to John J. and Deborah Howard Malcom. He attended Dickinson College and Princeton Theological Seminary. Career In 1835, he went on his own missions to India, Burma, Siam, China, and Africa. He wrote some valuable literature about his missionary travels, notably, in 1839, ''Travels in South-Eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China'', and in 1840, ''Travels in the Burman Empire''. In 1843, mainly due to these writings, he received Doctorates of Divinity from Union College and University of Vermont. Due to loss of his voice, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Farrar (minister)
Rev. John Farrar (1802–1884) was a Methodist minister. He was Secretary of the annual British Methodist Conference on fourteen occasions, and was twice its elected President. Farrar was tutor and governor of several Wesleyan colleges. These included the early Wesleyan training college at Abney House, near London; and British Methodism's first purpose-built college at Richmond, now Richmond University. Life Farrar, the third and youngest son of the Rev. John Farrar (d.1837), a Wesleyan minister, was born at Alnwick, Northumberland, on 29 July 1802. On the opening of Woodhouse Grove School, Yorkshire, for the education of the sons of ministers, on 12 January 1812, he became one of its first pupils. On leaving school, he was employed as a teacher in an academy conducted by Mr. Green at Cottingham, near Hull. In August 1822, he entered the Wesleyan ministry, and spent his four years of probation as second-master in Woodhouse Grove School. He was afterwards resident minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eadie
John Eadie (9 May 1810 – 3 June 1876) was a Scottish theologian and biblical critic. Life He was born at Alva in Stirlingshire (now in Clackmannanshire). Having studied the arts curriculum at the University of Glasgow, he studied for the ministry at the Divinity Hall of the United Secession Church, a dissenting body which, on its union a few years later with the Relief Church, adopted the title the United Presbyterian Church. In 1843 Eadie was appointed professor of biblical literature and hermeneutics in the Divinity Hall of the United Presbyterian body. He held this appointment along with his ministerial charge until the close of his life. He received the honorary degree of LLD from Glasgow University in 1844, and that of DD from the University of St Andrews in 1850. He died at 6 Thornville Terrace in Hillhead, Glasgow on 3 June 1876. He is buried in the Glasgow Necropolis not far from the John Knox monument. His book collection was bought and presented to the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Relly Beard
John Relly Beard (4 August 1800 – 22 November 1876) was an English Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, university lecturer, and translator who co-founded Unitarian College Manchester and wrote more than thirty books. Life He was born in Portsmouth on 4 August 1800, the first child of a tradesman, John Beard, and his wife Ann Paine. After attending Portsmouth Grammar School and a brief period in a French boarding-school, he joined Manchester College, York in 1820 and studied under Charles Wellbeloved, a pioneering translator of the Old Testament. One of his fellow students there was William Gaskell (whose wife Elizabeth became the famous novelist) and they remained lifelong friends. After his training Beard became a Unitarian minister at Greengate, Salford in 1825. Alongside his ministry, he ran a school which was so successful that he built a house to accommodate it. Although he closed it in 1849 to give his attention to other matters, he remained deeply interested in educatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Austin Bastow
A Bible dictionary is a reference work containing encyclopedic entries related to the Bible, typically concerning people, places, customs, doctrine and Biblical criticism. Bible dictionaries can be scholarly or popular in tone. The first dictionary of the Bible in English was the ''Christian Dictionarie'' (1612) of Thomas Wilson. Bible dictionaries of the 18th century Bible dictionaries of the 19th century Bible dictionaries of the 20th century *''Barnes's Bible Encyclopedia, Biographical, Geographical, Historical and Doctrinal'' (1903), edited by Charles Randall Barnes *''Standard Bible Dictionary'' (1909), edited by Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Jr. *''Temple Dictionary of the Bible'' (1910), edited by William Ewing and John Ebenezer Honeyman Thomson *''Universal Bible Dictionary'' (1914), edited by Augustus Robert Buckland and Arthur Lukyn Williams *'' International Standard Bible Encyclopedia'' (1915), edited by James Orr *''A New Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Taylor (minister)
James Taylor (1813–1892) was a Scottish minister and historical author. Life Taylor was born in Greenlaw, Berwickshire, on 18 March 1813. After the parish school he went to the University of Edinburgh, and then to the theological hall of the United Secession Church with a view to the ministry. On 29 May 1839 he was ordained minister of the Church in St Andrews. He graduated wth an MA from the University of Edinburgh on 20 April 1843. On 26 February 1846 Taylor was translated to Regent Place Church, Glasgow, and on 11 July 1848, with most of the congregation, he left for the new church erected in Renfield Street. Resigning his charge in 1872, he was appointed secretary to the new Education Board for Scotland; it was closed down in 1885. By then Scotland had popularly elected educational authorities, an outcome for which Taylor had advocated in synod, in public meetings, and in the lobby of the House of Commons. Benjamin Disraeli alluded to Taylor's persistence in his novel '' Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kitto
John Kitto (4 December 1804 – 25 November 1854) was an English biblical scholar of Cornish descent. Biography Born in Plymouth, John Kitto was a sickly child, son of a Cornish stonemason. The drunkenness of his father and the poverty of his family meant that much of his childhood was spent in the workhouse. He had no more than three years of erratic and interrupted education. At the age of twelve John Kitto fell on his head from a rooftop, and became totally and permanently deaf. As a young man he suffered further tragedies, disappointments and much loneliness. His height was 4 ft 8 in, and his accident left him with an impaired sense of balance. He found consolation in browsing at bookstalls and reading any books that came his way. From these hardships he was rescued by friends who became aware of his mental abilities and encouraged him to write topical articles for local newspapers, arranging eventually for him to work as an assistant in a local library. Here he conti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cooke Taylor
William Cooke Taylor (1800–1849) was an Irish writer, known as a journalist, historian and Anti-Corn Law propagandist. Life and work He was born at Youghal on 16 April 1800.Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Journal, 1861, p. 263. Through his mother he claimed descent from the regicide John Cooke. He is best known for two works ''The Natural History of Society'' (1841) and ''Factories and the Factory System'' (1844). In the early 1840s he toured the northern English industrial centres and wrote considerably for the Anti-Corn Law LeagueCHALONER, W. H. in his introduction to the 1968 third edition of Cook Taylor’s ''Notes of a tour in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire'' and his observations of the factories of Manchester and Bolton provide a first hand account of the depression at that time. In 1843 he became the editor of Anti-Corn Law's The League. He was extremely hostile to chartism and his defence of child labour in factories (on the grounds that it was pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Goodhugh
William Goodhugh (1799?–1842) was an English bookseller and writer. Life Born about 1799, Goodhugh was for some time a bookseller at 155 Oxford Street, London. To help with bibliography, he studied languages. He became prominent by learned criticisms of John Bellamy's new translation of the Bible, in the ''Quarterly Review'' for April 1818 and July 1820. In 1840 he issued proposals for a society to be called the "Dugdale Society" for genealogical research on British families, but the project came to nothing. Goodhugh died at Chelsea, London on 23 May 1842, aged 43, leaving a son and a daughter. Works For a few years before his death, Goodhugh had been working on a biblical encyclopedia, which he had compiled to the letter R. ''The Bible Cyclopaedia'' appeared in two volumes, the second in 1843 carrying an ''Advertisement'' with a letter from William Cooke Taylor William Cooke Taylor (1800–1849) was an Irish writer, known as a journalist, historian and Anti-Corn Law propa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
