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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Roswell D Hitchcock

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock (1817-1887) was a Presbyterian pastor and theologian in New England. He was educated at Amherst, teaching there from 1836 to 1842, while also studying for a year at Andover Theological Seminary. He was a Congregational pastor from 1844 to 1852 in Maine, and then in New Hampshire, during which time he also briefly studied at Halle and Berlin. He became professor of church history at Union Theological Seminary in 1855, and was president of the school after 1880. Hitchcock edited The American Theological Review (1863-70) and wrote numerous books, including the New and Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible (1869), The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (1884), and a collection of Sermons (published posthumously, 1888).

A simple and direct Dictionary of the Proper Names in Scripture.

This dictionary – "An Interpreting Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names" – is part of Hitchcock's Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible, published in 1869, and probably the author's most significant work. The Dictionary provides simple one-line definitions, or, more properly, meanings, of over 2500 names occurring in the Bible, without any additional elucidation.

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