Excerpt from A Dictionary of the Bible: Including Biography, Natural, History, Geography, Topography, Archaeology, and Literature, With Twelve Colored Maps and Over Four Hundred Illustrations This dictionary aims to be a useful companion in the study of the Scriptures by furnishing, in convenient alphabetical order and in popular form, the condensed results Of the most recent investigations in biblical literature, history, biography, geography, topography, and archaeology.
The American sunday-school Union first published a Bible Dictionary in 1831 under the editorship Of the late venerable Dr. Archibald Alexander, of the Theological Seminary at Princeton, which was revised by F. A. Packard, LL.D., in 1837, and again by the same in 1855. It served a good purpose in its day, but biblical learning has since made such vast progress that an entirely new work, with new illustrations and maps, was needed.
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