Bernhard Pick ( Kempen 19 December 1842 – 1917) was a German-American Lutheran pastor and scholar. He studied at Union Theological Seminary in

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and after became a pastor. As a scholar he contributed many articles to the Schaff-Herzog ''Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge'' and McClintock and James Strong's ''Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature''. He also provided the index to Johann Peter Lange's ''Commentary on the Old Testament'' 1882 and an "Index to the Ante-Nicene Fathers" (1887). Pick's interest in hymnology led to ''Luther as a Hymnist'' Philadelphia, 1875 and an edition of Luther's "

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" in 19 Languages 1880; enlarged in 21 languages, Chicago, 1883.

Works

Many of Pick's works are now being reissued with 21st-century publication dates: * ''Judisches Volksleben zur Zeit Jesus'' Rochester, New York, 1880 * ''A Historical Sketch of the Jews since the Destruction of Jerusalem'' 1887 * ''The Life of Christ according to Extra-Canonical Sources'' 1887 * ''The

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: what it is and what it says about Jesus and the Christians'' 1887 * ''Paralipomena - Remains of Gospels and Sayings of Christ'' 1908 - including a chapter ''The Gospel to the Hebrews'' * ''The Cabala: Its Influence on Judaism and Christianity'' 1913Online
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''The Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew and Thomas''
The Open Court Publishing Co., Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd, Chicago, London 1909. He also translated

Franz Delitzsch Franz Delitzsch (23 February 1813, in Leipzig – 4 March 1890, in Leipzig) was a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist. Delitzsch wrote many commentaries on books of the Bible, Jewish antiquities, Biblical psychology, as well as a history of J ...

''Jewish Artisan Life in the Time of Jesus'' 1883

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