THE NEW
SCHAFF-HERZOG ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE
EMBRACING
BIBLICAL, HISTORICAL, DOCTRINAL, AND PRACTICAL THEOLOGY AND BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL, AND ECCLESIASTICAL BIOGRAPHY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY
Based on the Third Edition of the Realencyklopadie Founded by J. J. Herzog, and Edited by Albert Hauck
PREPARED BY MORE THAN SIX HUNDRED SCHOLARS AND SPECIALISTS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF
SAMUEL MACAULEY JACKSON, D.D., LL.D.
(Editor-in-Chief )
WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF
CHARLES COLEBROOK SHERMAN
AND
GEORGE WILLIAM GILMORE, M.A.
(Associate Editors)
AND THE FOLLOWING DEPARTMENT EDITORS
CLARENCE AUGUSTINE BECKWITH, D.D.
JAMES FREDERIC MoCURDY, PH.D. LL.D.
(Department of Systematic Theology)
(Departinent of the Old Testament)
HENRY KING CARROLL, LL.D, HENRY SYLVESTER NASH, D.D,
(Department of Minor Denominations)
(Department of the New Testament)
JOHN THOMAS CREAGH, D.D.
ALBERT HENRY NEWMAN, DD. LL.D.
(Department of Liturgica and Religious Orders)
(Department of Church History)
dept FRANK HORACE VIZETELLY, F.9.A,
JAMES FRANCIS DRISCOLL, D.D,
(Department of Liturgics and Religious Orders)
(VOLS. HL. TO XII.)
(Department of Pronunciation and Typography)
VOLUME I
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