THE POPULAR 



CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE. 



COXDEXSED FROM THE LARGER WORK. 

 BY JOHN KITTO, I). D, 



1UTIIOR OF "HISTORY OF PALESTINE," "DAILY BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS," ETC. 

 ASSISTED BY NUMEROUS DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS IN EUROPE AZtD AMERICA. 



Octavo. 812pp. With more than Three Hundred Illustrations. Price, cluth, $3,00. 



THE POPULAR BIBLICAL CYCLOPJEDIA OF LITERATURE is designed to furnish a DICTION- 

 ARY OF THE BIBLE, embodying the products of the best and most recent researches is bib- 

 lical literature, in which the scholars of Europe and America have beon engaged. The 

 work, the result of immense labor and research, and enriched by the contributions of writers 

 of distinguished eminence in the various departments of sacred literature, has been, by 

 universal consent, pronounced the best work of its dass extant, and the one best suited to 

 tiie advanced knowledge of the present day in all the studies connected with theological 

 science. 



This work, condensed by the author from his larger work in two volumes, is not only in- 

 tended for ministers and theological students, but is also particularly adapted to parents, 

 Sabbath-school teachers, and the great body of the religious public. It has been the author's 

 aim to avoid imparting to the work any color of sectarian or denominationnl bias. On such 

 points of difference among Christians, the historical mode of treatment has been adopted, 

 and care has been taken to provide a fair account of the arguments which have seemed 

 most conclusive to the ablest advocates of the various opinions. The pictorial illustra- 

 tions amount ng to more than three hundred are of the very highest order of the art. 



EXTRACTS FRO M LETTERS. 



From Rev. J. J. Carruthers, D. D., Pastor of Second Parish Cong. Church, Portland, J\fe. 



By far the most valuable boon presented to the Christian public for many years. The 

 condensation of the work, at little more than a third of the price, is, what it professes to 

 be, a condensation, a reduction, not of ideas, but of words, without in the slightest degree 

 o jscuring the meaning of the gifted authors. 



\ 

 From Rev. Daniel Sharp, D. D., Pastor of Third Baptist Church, Boston. 



A most valuable, as it was a much needed, publication. Every minister ought to have a 

 copy of it on his study table. As a book of reference, shedding its collected light on almost 

 all scriptural subjects, and furnishing a brief, but clear and compendious history of the most 

 remarkable events and personages mentioned in the Bible, it cannot fail of being a great 

 help. Every lover of God's word, not to say every Sabbath-school teacher, and every theo- 

 logical student, will find treasures of information in the above-named work. 



From Rev. Joel Hawes, D. D., Pastor of First Congregational Church, Hartford, Ct. 



A capital work, containing a vast amount of information on a great variety of subjects, 

 in a very condensed, yet clear and interesting form. Every family and every Sabbath- school 

 teacher, wishing to understand the Bible, should possess this work. 



From Rev W. B. Sprague, D. D., Pastor of Second Presbijtcrian Church, Albany, N. Y. 



I regard it as the most important auxiliary to the study of the Scriptures, among the great 

 mass of people, of which I have any knowledge. Every Sabbath-school teacher, and indeed 

 every Christian, who is able to do so, ought to possess himself of the work ; and the fact 

 that such a work is in existence, may well he regarded as one of the favorable signs of the 

 tunes in regard to the progress of evangelical knowledge. 



From Rev. J. B. Watcrbury, D. D., Pastor of Bowdoln St. (Congregational) Church, Bcston. 



It is a most valuable book, suited to the wants of clergymen, and well adapted to aid 

 Sabbath-school teachers in their responsible work. Every family that can afford it, would 

 do well to possess themselves of so important and interesting a volume ; to which they 

 might refer in elucidating the Scriptures, and rendering their study pc^ only profitable but 

 delightful. 



