

I M P O E T A N T W O R K, 



KITTO'S POPULAR CYCLOPAEDIA OF BIBLICAL LITERA, 



TUttE. Condensed from the larger work. Ey the Author, JOHN KITTO, D. D., Author 

 of" Pictorial Bible," " History of Palestine," " Scripture Daily Readings," <fcc. Assisted 

 by JAMES TAYLOR, D. D., of Glasgow. With over Jive hundred Illustrations. One vol. 

 ume octavo, 812 pp., cloth, 3 5 00. 



THE POPULAR BIBLICAL CYCLOPAEDIA OF LITERATURE is designed to furnish a DICTIONARY 

 OF TIIK BIBLE, embodying the products of the best and most recent researche3 in biblical literature, 

 in which the scholars of Europe and America have been engaged. The work, the result of immense 

 labor and research, and enriched by the contributions of writers of distinguished eminence in the va- 

 rious departments of sacred literature, has been, by universal consent, pronounced the best work of 

 its class extant, and the one best suited to the advanced knowledge of the present day in all the studies 

 connected with theological science. It is not only intended for ministers and theological students, 

 but is also particularly adapted to panels, Sabbath school teachers, and the great body of the religious 

 The lUi'.stratwns, amounting to more than three hundred, are of the very highest order. 



A condensed vieiv of the various branches of Biblical Science comprehended in the work. 



1. BIBLICAL CRITICISM, Embracing the History of the Bible Languages ; Canon of Scripture 5 

 Literary History and Peculiarities of the Sacred Books; Formation and History cf Scripture Texts. . 



2. HISTORY, Proper Names of Persons ; Biographical Sketches of prominent Characters; Detailed. 

 Accounts of important Events recorded in Scripture ; Chronology and Genealogy of Scripture. 



3. GEoanAi'iiY, Names of Places; Description of Scenery ; Boundaries and Mutual Relations of 

 the Countries mentioned in Scripture, so far as necessary to illustrate the Sacred Text 



4. AKCII.-KOLOGY, Manners and Customs of the Jews and other nations mentioned in Scripture ; 

 their Sacred Institutions, Military Affairs, Political Arrangements, Literary and Scientific Pursuits; 



5. PHYSICAL SCIL-XCE, Scripture Cosmogony and Astronomy, Zoology, Mineralogy, Botany, 

 Meteorology. 



In addition to numerous nattering notices and reviews, personal letters from more thmfflfty of the 

 most distinguished Jifinisi-crs and Laymen of different religious denominations in the country have been 

 received, highly commending this work as admirably adapted to ministers, Sabbath school teachers, 

 h2ads of families, and all Bible students. 



The following extract of a letter is a fair specimen of individual letters received from each of the 

 gentlemen whose names are given below : 



" I have examined it with special and unalloyed satisfaction. It has the rare merit of being all that 

 it professes to be ; and very few, I am sure, who may consult it will deny that, in richness and fulnesi 

 of detail, it surpasses their expectation. Many ministers will find it a valuable auxiliary ; but its 

 chief excellence is, that it furnishes just the facilities which are needed by the thousands in families 

 and Sabbath schools, who are engaged iu the important business of biblical education. It is in itself a 

 library of reliable information. 1 " 



W. B. Sprague, D. D., Pastor of Second Presbyterian Church, Albany, N. Y. 



J, J. Carruthers, D. D., Pastor of Second Parish Congregational Church, Portland, Me. 



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



Daniel Sharp, D. D., late Pastor of Third Baptist Church, Boston. 



N, L. Frothingham, D. D.,late Pastor of First Congregational Church, (Unitarian,) Boston. 



Ephraim Peabody, D. D., Pastor of Stone Chapel Congregational Church, (Unitarian,) Boston. 



A. L. Stone, Pastor of Park Street Congregational Church, Boston. 



John S. Stone, D. D., Rector of Christ Church, (Episcopal,) Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J, B. Waterbury, D. D., Pastor of Bowdoin Street Church, (Congregational,) Boston. 



Baron Stow, D. D., Pastor of Rowe Street Baptist Church, Boston. 



Thomas II. Skinner, D. D,, Pastor of Carmine Presbyterian Church, New York. 



Samuel W. Worcester, D. D., Pastor of the Tabernacle Church, (Congregational,) Salem. 



Horace Bushnell, D. D., Pastor of Third Congregational Church, Hartford, Ct. 



llight Reverend J. M. Wainwright. D. D., Trinity Church, (Episcopal,) New York. 



Gardner Spring, D. D., Pastor of the Brick Church Chapel Presbyterian Church, New York. 



W. T. Dwight, D. D., Pastor of Third Congregational Church, Portland, Me. 



E. N. Kirk, Pastor of Mount Vernon Congregational Church. Boston. 



Prof. George Bush, author of " Notes on the Scriptures," New York. 



Howard Maleom, D. D., author of " Bible Dictionary," -and Pres of Lewisburg I mversity. 



Henry J. Ripley, D. D., author of " Notes on the Scriptures," and Prof, in Newton 1 



N. Porter, Prof, in Yale College, New Haven, Ct. 



Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, Theodore Frclinghuysen, Robert C. Winthrop, John I 



Simon Greenleaf, Thomas S. Williams, - and a large number of others of like character ar 



standing of the above, whose names cannot here appear. 



