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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
from Hitchcock's New and Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible (c. 1869). Roswell D. Hitchcock, Washburn Professor of Church History in the Union Theological Seminary, New York City.

Expand your knowledge of Bible names and their meaning with this wonerful dictionary. Use it to understand a brief description of a large number of names mentioned in the Bible. This concise volume has been an aid to both layman and scholar in their study of the Word of God.

Hitchcock, Roswell Dwight - Born: 1817 Died: 1887

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock was born in 1817 in East Machias, Maine. When he was 19 he graduated from Amherst College in 1836 and then enrolled at Andover Theological Seminary, Massachusetts in 1838. He became a minister in New Hampshire from 1845-1852. He became professor of natural and revealed religion in Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1852, and in 1855 professor of church history in the Union Theological Seminary in New York, of which he was president in 1880-1887. He died in 1887 in Somerset, Massachusetts.

He wrote:

Life of Edward Robinson (1863)
Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible (1869)
Hymns and Songs of Praise, with Dr. Philip Schaff and Dr. Zachary Eddy (1874)
Hymns and Songs for Social and Sabbath Worship (1875)
Socialism (1879)
Translated and edited The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (1884)
Carmina Sanctorum (with Dr. Eddy and Reverend Lewis Nudge, 1885)
Eternal Atonement (1888)

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