Two years later in 1642 Richard Bernard (1568-1641) published a small work of less than 200 pages, more theological than Biblical, The Bibles Abstract and Epitome, The Capitale Heads, Examples, Sentences and Precepts of all the Principall Matters in Theologie, Collected Together for the Most part Alphabetically.taken out the best Modern Divines. Thomas Wayne, a schoolmaster (1582-1645) wrote The General View of the Holy Scriptures or, the Times, Places, and Persons of the Holy Scriptures, rev. language, but for the sake of completeness, the following are listed: which contains articles written not only around individual words, but around phrases.įor the next hundred years no important volumes of this character appeared in the Eng. (1622) contains 948 unnumbered pages, including a unique dictionary for the Book of Revelation of 131 pages, and a dictionary of the Song of Solomon of 49 pages. It appeared first in 1612, and passed through several edd., of which the fifth (1667) was somewhat enlarged. was the Complete Christian Dictionary of Thomas Wilson, a minister of St. that might be classified as a Bible dictionary was a volume of 200 pages, published in London by William Patten in 1575, entitled: The Calendars of Scripture, whearin the Hebru, Chaldean, Arabian, Phenician, Syrian, Persian, Greek and Latin names of Contreys, Men, Women, Idols, Cities, Hills, Rivers, and of Other Places in the Holly Byble Mentioned by Order of Letters is Set and Turned into Our English Toung. This article will not include concordances ( see Concordance), lexicons, indexes to the Bible, theological and denominational encyclopedias, or any of the smaller works since 1900. In this way he might arrange in their several classes and given an account of the unknown places and animals and plants and trees and stones and metals and other species of things that are mentioned in Scripture, taking up these only, and committing his account to writing.” ( On Christian Doctrine, Book II, Ch. “What then some men have done in regard to all words and names found in Scripture in the Hebrew and Syriac and Egyptian and other tongues.and what Eusebius has done in regard to the history of the past., the same I think might be done in regard to other matters, if any competent man were willing in a spirit of benevolence to undertake the labor for the advantage of his brother. 367, Augustine expressed what must have been the general desire of many serious students of Scripture when he wrote in his Rules for the Interpretation of Scripture: of this work has ever appeared in the Eng. it into Lat., correcting some of its errors and adding some important material. It is a geographical dictionary, listing and describing about 600 names of towns, rivers, etc., in the OT and in the gospels. 326), who wrote a four-volume encyclopedia of which only one part is extant, known as the Onomasticon. Probably the first to undertake such a work was Eusebius of Caesarea (c. BIBLE DICTIONARIES, works that treat topically the places, persons, history, doctrines, and objects of the Bible.