RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Bibles, Annotate* Bibles, Historical
" with practical and experimental reflections on each verse of the Old and New Testaments, and rich marginal references." An edition in quarto with fifty-seven illustrations was published with this imprint: "London and New York: Virtue, Emmins and Company." The title-page has no date, though O'Callaghan assigns the publication to the year 1835.
Of more modern works of a similar character the following may be mentioned: the Lange commentary, translated and edited, with additions, by Philip Schaff and others (25 vols.,
13. Later ^ew y0rk, 1866-88); the work corn- Works, mon]y known as the " Speaker's Com- ,ls mentary " (because suggested by the
American. RiSht Hon- J" Evelyn Denison, speaker of the House of Commons), ed. F. C. Cook (10 vols., London, 1871-81); the Cainhridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, ed. J. J. S. Perowne (48 vols., Cambridge, 1877 sqq.); Bishop Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (8 vols., London, 1877-84); J. H. Blunt 's Annotated Bible a Household Commentary on the Holy Scriptures (3 vols., London, 1878); Clark's Handbooks for Bible Classes, ed. M. Dods and A. Whyte (47 vols., Edinburgh, 1879 sqq.); the American Commentary (Baptist; N. T. complete, ed. Alvah Hovey, 7 vols., O. T., 4 vols. — Lev. and Num., Job, Eccles., Pro v. and Song of Songs — published at present, 1881 sqq.); the International Illustrated Commentary on the New Testament, ed. Philip Schaff (4 vols., New York, 1889); J. G. Butler, Bible Work (11 vols., 1892); the New Century Bible, ed. W. F. Adeney (N. T. complete, 13 vols.; 0. T., 10 vols, issued, London, 1901 sqq.); and the Temple Bible (31 vols., London, 1901-03; especially useful for reading because the text is paragraphed according to the sense, and chapter and verse divisions are relegated to the margin). The so-called " Teachers' Bibles," of which many were published during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, may also be mentioned.
Bibliography: G. W. Panzer, Geschichte der deutschen Bibelubersetzung Dr. M. Luthers von 1517-81, Nuremberg, 1791; J. A. Goz, Veberblick uber Luthers Dolmetsch-
ung der heiligen Schrift und die . . seiner Zeitgenossen, Nuremberg, 1824; W. Orme, Bibliotheca Biblica, Edinburgh, 1824; F. H. Home, Manual of Biblical Bibliography, London, 1839; M. GSbel, Geschichte des christlichen Lebens in der rhein-westfalischen evangelischen Kirche, vols, ii, iii, Coblenz, 1852-60; A. Beck, Ernst der Fromme, 2 vols., Weimar, 1865; A. Ritschl, Geschichte des Piehsmus, vols, i, ii, Bonn, 1880-84; W. Bohne, Diepadagogischen Bestrebungen Herzog Ernst . von Gotha, Gbtha, 1888; G. Frank, Die Wertheimer Bibelubersetzung vor dem Reichshofrat in Wien, in ZKG, xii (1891), 2.
BIBLES FOR CHILDREN: Various attempts have been made to present the Bible in the form of a " child's book." The selection of parts best adapted to immature minds and the omission of the unsuitable, with simplification of language, are the chief aims in such attempts. Illustrations, coarse print, and other typographical devices are naturally used freely. Such books spring from the conviction that the Bible contains spiritual truth tor all and is the greatest instrument for awakening religious feeling and quickening moral perception, out that its usefulness for these ends is necessarily
conditioned upon the form of presentation and that the latter may well be varied for different classes of readers. The following list mentions some noteworthy books of this sort in English, but makes no claim to completeness.
An Abridgement of the Holy Scriptures. By the Rev Mr. Sellon, late Minister of St. James's, Clerkenwell, published in 1781 and many later eds., at Hartford by Hale and Hosmer, 1813.
The Bible for Children. Arranged from the King James Version. With a Preface by the Rev. Francis Brown, D.D., and an Introduction by the Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, D.D [compiled by Mrs. Joseph B. Gilder], New York [1902].
The Bible Story Re-told for Young People; the Old Testament Story by W H. Bennett; the New Testament Story by. W. F. Adeney, London, 1897.
The Bible for Young People, translated from the Dutch, of H. Oort and I. Hooykas by P. H. Wicksteed, 6 vols London, 1873-79; 2d ed., 1882.
The Children's Bible, or an History of the Holy Scriptures, to which is added a new manual of devotions for children; by a divine of the Church of England, London, 1759.
The Child's Bible. With plates. By a Lady of Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Henry F. Anners, 1834.
A Compendium of the Religious Doctrines, Religious and Moral Precepts, Historical and Descriptive Beauties of the- Bible; with a Separate Moral Selection from the Apocrypha; being a Transcript of the received Text: Intended for the use of Families, but more particularly as a Reading Book for Schools. By Rodolphus Dickinson, Esq., Greenfield,
Mass., Horace Graves, Printer, 1814.
A curious Hieroglyphick Bible, or Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the amusement of youth; designed chiefly to' familiarize tender age, in a pleasing and diverting manner, with early ideas of the Holy Scriptures — a very popular work. which appeared in many editions (12th ed., London, 1792; Worcester, Mass., Isaiah Thomas, 1788; Dublin, 1789; etc.). It is a child's book, containing short passages of Scripture in which some of the words are represented by small cuts.
The Holy Bible abridged: or the History of the Old and" New Testament. Illustrated with Notes, and adorned with cuts. For the Use of Children. To which is added, A Compleat Abstract of the Old and New Testament, with the Apocrypha, in Easy Verse, New York, Hodge, Allen, and Campbell, 1790.
The School and Children's Bible; prepared under the superintendence of the Rev. William Rogers, . London, 1873. It presents the Bible in a shortened form, "adapted for the use of children, and rearranges the matter."
The Bible for Young People, New York, 1902, n. e., 1906.
Scripture Lessons for schools on the British system of mutual instruction. Adopted in Russia by order of the Emperor Alexander I., London, 1820. According to the preface, these selections were originally made in Russian at St. Petersburg in 1818-19, and adopted in Russian schools at the instance of Prince Alexander Galitzin, minister of instruction. The Committee of the British and Foreign School Society then determined to issue them in the chief languages of Europe. The extracts ar3 divided into : (i) Historical Lessons from the Old Testament; (2) Lessons on Duty toward God and Man; (3) Lessons from the Evangelists and the Acts.