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.
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The first dictionary of the Bible in English was the Christian Dictionarie (1612) of Thomas Wilson.[1]
Bible dictionaries of the 18th century
editYear | Title | Editor | Comments |
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1722 | Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, géographique et littéral de la Bible[2] | Augustin Calmet | English translation (1732, 3 vols.) as An historical, critical, geographical, chronological and etymological dictionary of the Holy Bible, by John Colson and Samuel d'Oyly.[3] |
1769 | A Dictionary of the Holy Bible[4] | John Brown of Haddington | Welsh translation by James Rhys Jones as Geiriadur Beiblaidd, 1869–70.[5] |
1770 | Vollständiges Biblisches Wörterbuch | Jacob Christof Beck[6] | |
1779 | A Dictionary of the Bible[7][8] | Alexander Macbean | |
1784–5 | Scripture Lexicon[9] | Peter Oliver: might be Peter Oliver, or a Birmingham preacher of the same name according to James Darling, Cyclopaedia bibliographica.[9] | |
From 1797 | Dictionary of the Bible, translation from Calmet[10] | Anonymous, Charles Taylor | Later as Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American edition enlarged by Edward Robinson.[11] |
Bible dictionaries of the 19th century
editYear | Title | Editor | Comments |
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1804 | Dictionary of the Bible[12] | James Wood[12] | |
1805–08 | Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol[13] | Thomas Charles | 4 vols. |
1810 | Dictionary of the Holy Bible[14] | Miles Martindale | 2 vols. |
1815 | A Theological, Biblical, Ecclesiastical Dictionary[15] | John Robinson | |
1816 | Biblical Cyclopædia[16] | William Jones | |
1817 | The Diamond Pocket Dictionary of the Holy Bible[17][18] | William Gurney[19] | The 1829 American edition by Archibald Alexander comments that the book was found to be an abridgement of Brown's work; and Alexander made a fresh version.[20] Welsh translation 1835 by Isaac Jones.[21] |
1831 | Theological and Biblical Dictionary[22] | Richard Watson | Based on conservative authorities.[22] |
1833 | Dictionary of the Holy Bible[16] | Edward Robinson | |
1837 | Complete Index and Concise Dictionary of the Holy Bible[23] | John Barr | |
1840 | Biblical and Theological Dictionary[24] | Samuel Green | |
?–1843 | The Bible Cyclopædia[25] | William Goodhugh William Cooke Taylor |
2 vols. |
1845 | Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature[26] | John Kitto | 2 vols. An abridged version was made by James Taylor, as the Popular Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature (1854).[27] |
1845–53 | A Biblical Dictionary[28] | James Austin Bastow | 3 Vols. |
1847 | The People's Dictionary of the Bible[29][30] | John Relly Beard | |
1847 | A Concise Dictionary of the Holy Bible[31] | James Covel | |
1848 | Biblical Cyclopaedia[32] | John Eadie | |
1851 | A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, illustrative of the Old and New Testament[33] | John Farrar | |
1854 | A Bible Dictionary[34] | Samuel Bulfinch Emmons | |
1856 | A Dictionary of the most important names, objects, and terms found in the Holy Scriptures[35] | Howard Malcom | |
1863 | Smith's Bible Dictionary | William Smith | A Concise Dictionary of the Bible for the Use of Families and Students (1865) was abridged from this work by William Aldis Wright.[36] |
1864–83 | Geiriadur Beiblaidd a Duwinyddol[37] | John Jones | 3 vols. |
1866 | Imperial Bible Dictionary[38] | Patrick Fairbairn | |
1866 | Treasury of Bible Knowledge[39] | John Ayre | |
1867–81 | Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature[40] | James Strong and John McClintock | 10 vols. |
1867 | Smith's Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible[41] | Samuel Weed Barnum | |
1870 | The Household Bible Dictionary[42] | James Aitken Wylie | |
1870 | Beeton's Bible Dictionary[43] | Samuel Orchart Beeton | |
1871 | A Bible dictionary for the use of all readers and students of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments of the books of the Apocrypha[44] | Charles Boutell | Reissued as Haydn's Bible Dictionary (1879), named for Joseph Timothy Haydn.[44][45] |
1885 | Cursus Scripturæ Sacræ[46] | Karl Josef Rudolph Cornely et al. | |
1894 | The Sunday School Teacher's Bible Manual[47] | Robert Hunter | As Cassell's Concise Bible Dictionary (1901)[47] |
1894–1912 | Dictionnaire de la Bible[48] | Fulcran Vigouroux | |
1897 | Easton's Bible Dictionary | Matthew George Easton | |
1898–1904 | Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible | James Hastings | 5 vols. |
1899–1903 | Encyclopaedia Biblica[49] | Thomas Kelly Cheyne J. Sutherland Black |
4 vols. |
Bible dictionaries of the 20th century
editYear | Title | Editor | Comments |
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Barnes's Bible Encyclopedia, Biographical, Geographical, Historical and Doctrinal | 1903 | Charles Randall Barnes[50] | |
Standard Bible Dictionary | 1909 | Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Jr.[51] | |
Temple Dictionary of the Bible | 1910 | William Ewing and John Ebenezer Honeyman Thomson[52] | |
Universal Bible Dictionary | 1914 | Augustus Robert Buckland and Arthur Lukyn Williams[53] | |
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia | 1915 | James Orr | |
A New Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible | 1922 | Selah Merrill[54] | |
The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopaedia and Scriptural Dictionary | 1922 | Samuel Fallows[55] | |
Theological Word Book of the Bible | 1951 | Alan Richardson | |
Harper's Bible Dictionary | 1952 | Madeleine S. and J. Lane Miller | |
The New Bible Dictionary | 1962 | J. D. Douglas | Second Edition 1982, Third Edition 1996 |
Dictionary of the Bible | 1965 | John L. McKenzie, SJ[clarification needed] | |
The New Westminster Dictionary of the Bible | 1970 | Henry Snyder Gehman | |
LDS Bible Dictionary | 1979 | ||
Harper's Bible Dictionary | 1985 | Paul J. Achtemeier | |
The Eerdmans Bible Dictionary | 1987 | Allen C. Myers | |
Anchor Bible Dictionary | 1992 | ||
Oxford Dictionary of the Bible | 1996 | W. R. F. Browning | 2nd Edition 2009 |
Bible dictionaries of the 21st century
editSee also
editReferences
edit- Dictionaries, article by E. C. Richardson in The International standard Bible encyclopaedia (Volume 2) (1915) pp. 844–8; archive.org.
Notes
edit- ^ Wright, Stephen. "Wilson, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29689. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Augustin Calmet (1722). Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, géographique et littéral de la Bible. Chez Emery, pere, Emery, fils ... Saugrain, l'aîné ... Pierre Martin.
- ^ Kilburn, Matthew. "D'Oyly, Samuel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8014. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Wright, D. F. "Brown, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3622. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Jacob C. Beck (1770). Vollständiges biblisches Wörterbuch oder biblische Real- und Verbal-Concordanz ...
- ^ Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library; Samuel Halkett; Jón Andrésson Hjaltalín; Thomas Hill Jamieson (1867). Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates. W. Blackwood and sons. p. 508.
- ^ Bevan, Michael. "Macbean, Alexander". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17354. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b Samuel Austin Allibone; John Foster Kirk (1870). Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century: Containing Thirty Thousand Biographies and Literary Notices, with Forty Indexes of Subjects. K - S. Childs & Peterson. p. 1455.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Augustin Calmet (1832). Dictionary of the Holy Bible. Crocker and Brewster.
- ^ a b Krueger, Christine L. "Green, Mary Anne Everett". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11395. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1893). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 36. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ a b William Thomas Lowndes (1839). British Librarian: To the Formation of a Library in All Branches of Literature, Science and Art : Arranged in Classes, with Prices, Critical Notes, References and an Index of Authors and Subjects. Whittaker. p. 87.
- ^ Joey Faust (2002). The Rod: Will God Spare It? An Exhaustive Study of Temporary Punishment for Unfaithful Christians at the Judgment Seat and During the Millennial Kingdom. Schoettle Publishing Company. p. 398. ISBN 978-1-56453-074-5.
- ^ Catalogue Entry
- ^ "Gurney, William (GNY784W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Archibald Alexander (1829). A Pocket Dictionary of the Holy Bible. American Sunday School Union. pp. 3–.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ a b Rack, Henry D. "Watson, Richard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28858. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Complete index & concise dictionary of the Holy Bible: in which the various persons, places, & subjects mentioned in it are accurately referred to; & difficult words briefly explained ... T. Mason & G. Lane. 1837.
- ^ Congress, Library of (1864). Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of Congress - Authors. p. 490.
- ^ William Goodhugh; William Cooke Taylor (1843). The Bible cyclopædia: or, Illustrations of the civil and natural history of the sacred writings [ed. by W. Goodhugh, completed by W.C. Taylor].
- ^ Matthew, H. C. G. "Kitto, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15694. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ John Kitto; James Taylor (1854). The Popular Cyclopadia of Biblical Literature: Condensed from the Larger Work. Gould and Lincoln.
- ^ Samuel Halkett; Jón Andrésson Hjaltalín; Thomas Hill Jamieson (1867). Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates. W. Blackwood and sons. p. 355.
- ^ John Relly Beard (1847). The People's Dictionary of the Bible. Simpkin, Marshall, and Company.
- ^ Ruston, Alan. "Beard, John Relly". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1817. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ James Covel (1847). A Concise Dictionary of the Holy Bible. Lane & Tippett.
- ^ Hawke, Joanna. "Eadie, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8382. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1889). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 18. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Samuel Bulfinch Emmons (1854). A Bible Dictionary: Containing a Definition of the Most Important Words and Phrases in the Holy Scriptures : to which is Added a Brief Compendium of Our Saviour's History and that of His Apostles and Evangelists. A. Tompkins.
- ^ Howard Malcom (1856). A dictionary of the most important names, objects, and terms found in the Holy Scriptures: intended principally for Sunday schools and Bible classes, and as an aid to family instruction. Gould and Lincoln.
- ^ Sir William Smith; William Aldis Wright (1865). A Concise Dictionary of the Bible for the Use of Families and Students. John Murray.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Patrick Fairbairn (1866). The Imperial Bible-Dictionary: Historical, Biographical, Geographical and Doctrinal - Volume I.
- ^ John Ayre (Minister of St. John's Chapel, Hampstead.) (1866). The Treasury of Bible Knowledge ...
- ^ John McClintock; James Strong (1981). Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Book House. ISBN 978-0-8010-6123-3.
- ^ William Smith (1867). Smith's Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible. D. Appleton.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Samuel Orchart Beeton (1870). Beeton's Bible dictionary.
- ^ a b Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 6. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Myers, Robin. "Haydn, Joseph Timothy". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12743. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Franciscus Cornellius (1885). Cursus Scripturae Sacrae. Auctoribus R. Cornely, I. Knabenbauer, Fr. de Hummelauer Aliisque Soc. Jesu Presbyteris.
- ^ a b Ritchie, Lionel Alexander. "Hunter, Robert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14230. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Collectif (1943). La Contre-reforme Devant la Bible. Slatkine. pp. 501–. GGKEY:68N5CEHLKGZ.
- ^ Hawke, Joanna. "Cheyne, Thomas Kelly". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32395. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Charles Randall Barnes (1903). Rev. Charles Randall Barnes (ed.). Barnes's Bible Encyclopedia, Biographical, Geographical, Historical and Doctrinal. Eaton and Mains.
- ^ Colby, F.; Williams, T., eds. (1915). "Jacobus, Melancthon Williams. An American theologian". New International Encyclopedia. Vol. 12 (2nd ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. p. 530.
- ^ Temple Dictionary of the Bible (1910) archive.org.
- ^ Universal Bible Dictionary (1914), archive.org.
- ^ Selah Merrill (1922). A New Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible: Containing Every Proper Name to be Found in the Old and New Testaments, with Meaning and Pronunciation Indicated Phonetically. James Pott & Company.
- ^ The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopaedia and Scriptural Dictionary (1922);archive.org.