Bible Biography: or, The Lives and Characters of the Principal Personages Recorded in the Sacred Writings; practically Adapted to the Instruction of Youth and Private Families; together with an Appendix, containing Thirty Dissertations on the Evidences of Divine Revelation from Timpson's Key to the Bible; being a Complete Summary of Biblical Knowledge, Carefully Condensed and Compiled from Scott, Doddridge, Gill, Patrick, Adam Clarke, Pool, Lowth, Horne, Wall, Stowe, Robinson, and other Eminent Writers on the Scriptures. Embellished with Several Hundred Engravings on Wood, Illustrative of Scripture Scenes, Manners, Customs, etc. 5th ed.
- Singerman ID
- supp1266
- Year
- 1842
- Entry
- Sears, Robert, ed. Bible Biography: or, The Lives and Characters of the Principal Personages Recorded in the Sacred Writings; practically Adapted to the Instruction of Youth and Private Families; together with an Appendix, containing Thirty Dissertations on the Evidences of Divine Revelation from Timpson's Key to the Bible; being a Complete Summary of Biblical Knowledge, Carefully Condensed and Compiled from Scott, Doddridge, Gill, Patrick, Adam Clarke, Pool, Lowth, Horne, Wall, Stowe, Robinson, and other Eminent Writers on the Scriptures. Embellished with Several Hundred Engravings on Wood, Illustrative of Scripture Scenes, Manners, Customs, etc. 5th ed. New York: Robert Sears; J. S. Redfield; Boston: Saxton & Peirce; Philadelphia: Thomas Cowperthwait, & Co., and B. R. Loxley; St. John, New Brunswick: George and Edward Sears, M DCCC XLII. 491 p.
- Author/Editor
- Sears, Robert, ed
- Location
- New York, NY
- Holdings
- In most academic libraries
- Title
- Bible Biography: or, The Lives and Characters of the Principal Personages Recorded in the Sacred Writings; practically Adapted to the Instruction of Youth and Private Families; together with an Appendix, containing Thirty Dissertations on the Evidences of Divine Revelation from Timpson's Key to the Bible; being a Complete Summary of Biblical Knowledge, Carefully Condensed and Compiled from Scott, Doddridge, Gill, Patrick, Adam Clarke, Pool, Lowth, Horne, Wall, Stowe, Robinson, and other Eminent Writers on the Scriptures. Embellished with Several Hundred Engravings on Wood, Illustrative of Scripture Scenes, Manners, Customs, etc. 5th ed.
- Language
- English
- Printer/Publisher
- Robert Sears
- Notes
- Dissertation XXVII, "Sacred Hebrew and Jewish Festivals." Dissertation XXVIII, "Hebrew, Jewish, and Christian Ecclesiatical Persons and Sects." Dissertation XXIX, "Fulfilled Prophecies," includes a chapter, "The Israelites and Jews." Dissertation XXX, "Prophecies in Course of Fulfilment," includes a chapter, "The Restoration of the Jews in Their Conversion to Christ." Frequently reissued. Editions are encountered with a final section, "Notices and Recommendations of Sears’ Bible Biography" (8 p.). Rinderknecht 42-4441.
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Chronological File, 1676 to 1900
Sears, Robert, ed, “Bible Biography: or, The Lives and Characters of the Principal Personages Recorded in the Sacred Writings; practically Adapted to the Instruction of Youth and Private Families; together with an Appendix, containing Thirty Dissertations on the Evidences of Divine Revelation from Timpson's Key to the Bible; being a Complete Summary of Biblical Knowledge, Carefully Condensed and Compiled from Scott, Doddridge, Gill, Patrick, Adam Clarke, Pool, Lowth, Horne, Wall, Stowe, Robinson, and other Eminent Writers on the Scriptures. Embellished with Several Hundred Engravings on Wood, Illustrative of Scripture Scenes, Manners, Customs, etc. 5th ed.”, Judaica Americana II, accessed September 16, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/singerman/item/50223