| ALSTEDIUS, Johannes-Henricus (1588-1638): |
Triumphus bibliorum sacrorum seu Encyclopaedia biblica exhibens Francofurti (Frankfurt), apud Bartholomaeum Schmidt, 1625, in-8vo, 6 leaves, title with printer's device + 2 blanc leaves + 622 p., waterstained ( especially in the beginning) & browned throughout, repair of small lacking piece of paper at bottom of leaf 3 & page 6, 11, and 14, with loss of a few lines of text, full overlapping vellum binding, somewhat stained, restes of ties.
- Prix : 1200.00 CHF
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| É The much needed and most welcome First Dictionary of the Bible Ç "The first successful attempt to compile a dictionary of the Bible was made by the polyhistor and Protestant theologian Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588-1638), who wrote a universal encyclopedia and a "Triumphus Bibliorum Sacrorum seu Encyclopódia Biblica," Frankfort, 1625". See http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=339&letter=D Balge, The bible through the ages: "Jerome's contemporary, Augustine, expressed appreciation for this work, but asked for a work "which would carefully classify and accord individual treatment to the geographical localities, the flora and fauna, and the stones and unknown metals of Scripture....". He was asking for a Bible dictionary. We do not know how soon good maps were available for a biblical atlas, but we do know that Augustine's plea for a Bible dictionary was not answered for 1200 years. In 1625 Johann Heinrich Alsted published his ÇTriumphus Bibliorum Sacrorum seu Encyclopaedia BiblicaÉ". Alsted, reformation theologician, was a prolific writer, and his Encyclopaedia , the most considerable of the earlier works of that class, was long held in high estimation. Alsted is considered as the main representative of reformation scholastics. His pedagogical ideas influenced Amos Comenius who was his pupil 1611-1613. Alsted believed that the Holy Scriptures were the source of all morality and even of the science of medicine. L.Th.K. I/293-294. |
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