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count Zinzendorf for the episcopal office. At the jn- stance of the queen, he was honored as earlj- as 1706 with the deijree of doctor of divinity. Jabloiiski trans- lated into Latin the eight discourses of Eichard Bentley against Atheism, the treatise of Joseph Woodward on the religious societies of London, and that of Burnet on predestination and grace ; but he is especially celebrated by an edition of the Hebrew Bible, with notes and an introduction, published under the title of Biblia JJebra- ica cum noiis Ilebmicis (Berlin, 1G99, 2 vols. 4to; 2d ed. 1712, 12mo). The preface has since been printed in other editions of the Hebrew Bible. Both editions have a list, by Leusden, of 2294 select verses, in which all the words to be found in the Bible are contained. He also published an edition of the Talmud, and wrote a num- ber of religious works, the most important of which is ChristUche Predi(jten (Berlin, 1716, etc., 10 parts, 4to). Many of Jablonski's writings bear on the state of the Church in Poland. One of the most able of them is the Jlititoria Consensus Sendomirieiisis infer evangelicos ref/ni I'ohmio', et Lifhnanice (Berlin, 1731, 4to), etc. See Ersch u. flruljtT, .1 /A/. Juw//k. s. v. ; Hoefer, Noui: Biog. Ge„. xxvi. M.-. : Kittn, IUhl. Cyclop, s. v. (J. H.W.)
Jablonski, Paul Ernst, a distinguished German theologian and philologist, and son of the former Ja- blonski, was born at Berlin in 1G93. He was educated at the University of Frankfort on the Oder, where he acquired such great proficiency in the Coptic as weU as other Oriental languages that the government of Prus- sia sent the young man of twenty-one years, at the ex- pense of the king (in 1714), to visit the principal libra- ries and high schools of Europe, to perfect himself in his knowledge of the Oriental tongues, and decipher Cop- tic and other MSS. For this piurpose he visited the universities of Oxford, Leyden, and Paris. After his return home he entered the ministry, and was appointed pastor at Liebenberg in 1720. He, however, soon found that his place was in the rostrum rather than in the pulpit, and in 1721 accepted the professorship of philos- ophy in his alma mater. In 1722 he was honored with the appointment of professor of theology, and shortly after was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Berlin. He died December 14, 1557. Jablonski was one of the most learned of the many who have endeav- ored to throw light on the language, literature, and an- tiquities of the I'^gyptians. His Egyptian Glossary, which makes the tirst volume of the Opuscula quibus lingua et untiquitcts ^^Apjpiiorum, etc., published by J. S. te Water (Leyden, 1804-10,3 vols. 8vo), is pronounced by Quatreniere tlie most complete work in that department. Another work of great value in this department, and certainly one of the best productions of Jablonski, is the Pantheon yKgyptiorum sive de diis eorum commentarius, aim prolef/omenis de rdigione et theologia ^Egyptioruvi (Ikrlin, 1750-52, 3 vols. «vo). The other works of es- l)ccip.l value, and of interest to our readers, are, Disquisi- tii) di' Lingua Lgcaonica (Berlin, 1714, 4to; 2d edition, Utrcdil, 1724), an attempt to prove that the language of Lycaonia, mentioned in Acts xiv, 11, bore no relation to Greek : — Kxercitatio historico-theologica de Xesioria- nismo, etc. (Berlin, 1724, 8vo; German by Immermann, Magdeburg, 1752, 4to) ; this work, intended as a defence of Ncstorianism, excited great controversy among the (ierniau tlieologians :— /^ej«;Vi«H, yKggptiorum Dtvs, ah Israclilis deserto adtus (Francfort ad Oder, 1735, 4to) : — Dissert, exeg.-histor. de Serapi parabolico, ad Malt, xiii, 31 et_ 32 (Francfort ad Oder, 1736, 4to):— Z>e idti- mis Pauli apostoli laboribus a heato Jmcu pratermissis (Herl. 1746, 4to) -.—De Mernnone Grwcorum et yKgyptio- rum, hiijnsque celeherrima in Thehaide statua, iSi/ntag- matu in (Francfort ad Oder, 1753, 4to) ■.—Institutiones historicB Christiame antiquioris (Francfort ad Oder, 1753, ^1"^ '•—I'^i^Miows hist. Christiana! recentioris (Francf. 1756, 8vo); the two latter works were iiublishod togeth- er under the title Inst. Hist. Christiano- (Francfort ad Oder, 1766, 1767, 2 vols.8vo; revised and augmented by E. A. Schulze, id. 1783. 1784. 2 vols. 8vo; oil vol. by E.
H. D. Stosch, containing the history of tne 18th centu- ry', idem. 1767, 8vo ; revised and completed by A. P. G. Schickedanz, id. 1786, 8vo). See Ersch u. Gruber, A llg, EncyUop. ; Hoefer. Nouv, Biog. Generale, xxvi, 146 sq.; Kitto, Cyclop, of Bib. Lit. s. v. ; Herzog, Real-Encyklo- pddie, s. v. (J. II. W.)
Jab'neel (Hebrew Yabneel', hVii'^'^, built by God; Sept. 'Ial3vi]\, but 'lafiiijX in Josh, xix, 33), the name of two places.
1. A town on the northern boundary of Judah, be- tween Mount Baalah and the IMediterranean (Josh, xv, 11); probably the same elsewhere (2 Chron. xxvi, 6) called Jabneh (q. v.) or Jamnia (1 Mace, iv, 15, etc.).
2. A city on the border of Naphtali, mentioned be- tween Nekeb and Lakum (Josh, xix, 33). Sch;varz (Palest, p. 181, 182) aflirms that the later name of Jab- neel was Ke/r Yamah, '■ the village by the sea," and on Talmudical grounds (comp. Reland's Palcest. p. 545, 716) locates it on the southern shore of Lake Merom, and thinks it identical with the Jamnia or Jamnilh men- tioned by Josephus as lying in this section of Ui^ier Galilee {'lajwia, Life, 37; 'laixvib, War, ii, 20, 6). f This is not improbable, as the boundarj'-line here de- scribed appears to have extended from the northern