Excerpt from Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. 1: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography, and Natural History; A to Gennesaret, Land Of
The reputation of Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible is now too well established to need any special commendation. It contains, by universal con sent, the fruit of the ripest Biblical scholarship of England, and constitutes a library of itself (superseding the use of many books otherwise necessary) for the study and illustration of the Scriptures. As a whole, it is unquestionably superior to any simi lar Lexicon in our language, and cannot fail to maintain this rank for a long period to come. In this American edition, the Publishers reprint the entire work, without abridgment or change, except the correction of typographical errors, or an occa sioual verbal inaccuracy, and of mistakes in quotation and reference.
At the same time, the reprinting of this Dictionary, after the lapse of several years since its first publication, and of a still longer time since the preparation of many of the articles, affords an opportunity to give to it some new features, required by the progressive nature of Biblical science, and adapting it more perfectly to the wants of students of the Bible in our own country Among the characteristics In which the American edit_ion differs from the English, are the following.
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