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New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge • VOLUME 3

THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG

['Herzog, J. J. (Johann Jakob), 1805-1882', 'Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893', 'Hauck, Albert, 1845-1918', 'Jackson, Samuel Macauley, 1851-1912', 'Sherman, Charles Colebrook, 1860-1927', 'Gilmore, George W. (George William), 1858-1933'] • Public-domain historical edition in the United States (published 1908); OCR from Internet Archive scan

THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG

1545; ed. Johannes Gaste from Breisach, Basel, 1552. In 1533 Joannes Steels, an Antwerp bookseller, published a handy little volume Index utriusque Testament}, the first convenient rival of the large concordances.

In Paris, 1555, Robert Estienne'a improved concordance came out: Concordantice hibliorum utriusque Testamenti, V et Xi., novce et integrce. Quas revera maiores appellare possis, for which Estienne divided the New Testament into verses. At Basel Joh. Hervage published, 1561 and again 1568, a concordance by his father. Jean Benoit made an edition (Paris?), 1562, George Bullock one in Antwerp, 1572, Leyden, 1586, 1603, 1615. From the Clementine Vulgate of 1592, Antwerp, 1599; (Frankfort), 1600; again 1618 (Hanover?);

Cologne, 1611; Geneva, 1611; with

3. notes by Franz Lukas from Bruges, 1555-1685. Antwerp, 1606, 1612; Venice, 1612;

Orleans, 1612; Lyons, 1612, 1615 (confused with Leyden, 1615?); Antwerp and Venice, 1618; Geneva, 1620, 1624; Geneva and Frankfort, 1625; Rome, 1627, bj' Gaspard de Zamora, S. J.; Paris, 1635, 1638. 1646; Cologne, 1628 (1629?), 1661, 1663; Bamberg, 1721. Hubert Phalesius corrected in 1642 Franz Lukas's edition of 1617, printed Lyons, 1649, 1652, 1667, 1687, 1700; Paris, 1656; Cologne, 1684; Mainz, 1685; and at other times and places, for example, Vienna, 1825.

The Benedictine monks in Wessobrunn published: Concordantice nova methodo ornatce, Augsburg, 1751, viith whole verses or at least sentences. F F Dutripon's Vulgatce editionis hibliorum sacro- Tum concordantice, Paris, 1838, has reached at least a 7th ed., Paris, 1880, Regensburg, 1886. Tonimi revised it, Prado, 1861. H. de Raze, Ed. de Lechaux, and J. B. Flandrin, all S. J.,

4. published a Concordantium s. s. manu- 1751-1892. ale, Lyons, 1852, 13th ed., Paris, 1895.

De Raze's arrangement of words according to cases or tenses is also used by Peultier, fitienne, Gantois, in their Concordantium thesaurus (in R. Comely, J. Knabenbauer, Fr. von Hummelauer's Cursus sacr. script. Pars. III. Textus v.), Brussels [1897]. Add here: V P Robert, Aurijodina sacra scientiarum divinarum ex fontibus aureis utriusque Testamenti, ordine alphabetico digesta, Turin, 1873; M. Bechi's Concord, praster alphab. ordinem in grammaticalem redactce, Turin, 1887; C. Legrand, Bruges, 1889; V- Cornsert, Concordantice for preachers in choosing texts, Paris and Bruges, 1892.

V. German Concordances: Several small books appeared with only a selection of passages, first of all Johannes Schroeter's Konkordantz des Newen Testaments zu teutsch, Strasburg, 1524, according to Luther's translation. Leonhard Brunner, pastor in Worms, extended this to the whole Bible, Strasburg, 1546. Michael Muling published a little Conkordanz-Bibel. Leipsic, 1602, and finally Lucas Stockle, //. Gdtlicher Schrift Schatzkammer : Oder Teutsche Biblische Concordantzen, Herborn in the county Nassaw Catzenelnbogen, 1606.

The first lart^c work came from the Nuremberg printer Conrad Bawr (Latinized Agricola), Avith a preface of July 5th, 1609: Concordantice bibliorum,

d. i. bibl. Concordantz und Verzeichniss der Fiirnemhsten Worter auf Mart. Lviher's Ao. 1545 am letzten revidirte Bibel gerichtet, Frankfort-on- Main, 1610, 1621, 1632, 1640. In 1612 he added an appendix. Christian Zeise, pastor in Oeltzschau near Leipsic, improved Bawr's work, Frankforton-Main (1657), 1658, 1674; a supple- I. ment in 1664. Le Long mentions 1609-50. concordances by Johannes Fischer, Herborn, 1610; Johannes Faber, Ingolstadt, 1615; Paul Orell, Frankfort, 1627; Daniel Fessel, Frankfort, 1662; Johannes Janus, Scripture oder Stella ccelorum, Frankfort, 1650; Martin Gumbrecht, Dresden, 1654.

Friedrich Lanckisch, a Leipsic bookseller, prepared an enormous work, but died in 1669 before he could print it. Volume i. came out in the shape the author had intended: Concordantice bibliorum Germanico-Hebraico-Grcecce, Leipsic, 1677, new ed., 1688; 3d ed., 1696, 4th ed., 1705, enlarged by Christian Reineccius, 1718, second part, 1742. The Hebrew or the Greek word was placed 2. Lanck- beside each German word. Volumes isch's ii. and iii. were then abbreviated and Concord- published as follows : Concordantice ance. bibliorum Hebrceo- et Grceco-Germanicce, duabus partibus ahsolutce, quarum prior voces Hebraicas et Chaldaicas V Ti., posterior voces omnes Grcecas [N Ti., Apocr et LXX. interpp.] cum significatibus Germanicis e versione Lutheri ordine alphabet, recenset. Magni concordantiarum operis a F Lanckisch conscripti epitome, 2 parts, Leipsic and Frankfort, 1680. This is a Hebrew-Latin-German and Greek-Latin-German dictionary without any note of the passages.

Georg Michaelis's Kleine Concordantz of 1686 appeared in a sixth edition of the first part, Leipsic, 1707, and in a second edition of the second part, Leipsic and Jena, 1718; with preface by F A. Hallbauer, Jena, 1733; G. Michaelis vollstdndige Real- und Verbal-Concordanz vermehret von M. Adam Lebrecht Mailer. Mit einer Vorrede Joh. Georg Walchs, Jena, 1767. Wohleingerichtete Anweisung zur Biblischen Concordanz vermittelst einem Biblischen Sprux;h Register , Lem-

go (1720?), 1725; Biblisches Spruchregister, 5th ed., Lemgo, 1736, enlarged, Basel, 1746. Avenarius issued Biblisches Spruchregister, Gotha, 1713. Niedecr werfer's Biblischer Kern und Stern oder Hand-concordantz appeared Leipsic, 1814. Johannes Kamprads made a Biblical Sprachregister, 3- published with preface by Sieg- 1 707-1 893. fried Becker, the Leipsic superintendent, Dresden and Leipsic, 1727. Gottfried Bilchner made: Verbal Hand-Concordanz oder exegetisch-homiletisches Lexikon, Jena, 1740, 3d enlarged ed., Jena, 1756; 6th ed., enlarged by Heinrich Leonhard Heubner, Halle, 1840, 23d ed., Berlin, 1899; with supplement of 12,000 Bible passages by Lutz and Riehm, Basel, 1890; Philip Schaff prepared a reprint of the Heubner ed. by Biichncr, Philadelphia, 1871, in which A. Spath added 8,060 passages. Biichner first issued his Grosse Bibl. Real und Verbal-Concordanzien, Jena, 1750, 3d ed., 1765. Others are: Jacob Christof Beck, Vollstdndiges Biblisches Worterbuch, oder

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