BEETON’S BIBLE DICTIONARY.
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Many Dictionaries and Helps to the Bible have been published, but nothing has appeared of the kind at so low a cost as that which is now offered. A Shilling Bible Dictionary is unprecedented in the publishing trade.
The following general principles have governed in the preparation of the work:—
It is thoroughly Biblical and purely unsectarian. No word, with a few necessary exceptions, is introduced as the subject of an article which is not found in the Canonical Books of the Authorized Versions of the Old or New Testaments. Words, the meaning of which may be found in any ordinary Dictionary, are omitted. Theological expressions, excepting those which are strictly Biblical, are excluded. The Pronunciation of the Names, both of Persons and Places, is given, together with the signification of the word. All practical use is made of the information furnished by Modern Travellers and Residents in the East, and of Scientific Discoveries and Explorations. The Chronology adopted is that of Bishop Usher, which answers to that of the Authorised Version of the Scriptures.
The Work has been designed and produced for those who have neither leisure nor money to search and possess heavy folios of Ancient Learning, and to whom the cost of modern books of travel and research render them so many closed volumes. The object conscientiously kept in view has been that of furnishing, on the cheapest terms, a copious fountain of Biblical knowledge in the simplest and most available form, and of a character completely unexceptionable.
⁂ To Bible Teachers, Sunday School Teachers, Schoolmasters, Pupil Teachers, and all interested in aiding the Study of the Scriptures, Special Terms will be given when a number not less than a Dozen Copies of Beeton’s Bible Dictionary are ordered.
WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS.
Moxon’s Popular Poets.