Another work along similar lines is A Cyclopaedia of Biblical

Literature, edited by John Kitto, D.D.F.S.A.  Our copy was published in 1847

and is in two large volumes of over 900 pages each.  Unlike Calmet's work,

this cyclopaedia is the combined work of some forty scholars.  The preface

opens with the words:

`The present work was undertaken with the design of providing the

public with a more complete view of the existing state of Biblical

literature, both at home and abroad, than it previously possessed.  It

was felt that former works of the kind, numerous as they are, and

useful as some of them are considered, were built too exclusively upon

the "old learning" of Calmet and others'.

It will be seen, therefore, that Kitto's Cyclopaedia was a step

forward.  Again we have found our pen suspended in mid -air because our eye

has fallen upon an interesting note.  Speaking of the word `man', the

Cyclopaedia mentions the four important Hebrew words, and then under the

first, namely Adam, sets aside the derivation which is given by Josephus

namely, that man was so named because he was taken out of `red earth', and

says that:

`The truest origin of the word in Genesis 1:26; 5:1, has already been

pointed out, viz. Dam "likeness", because man was made B'Damoth "in the

likeness of God"`.

We jump now a period of 60 years, and come to the study of sacred

Scripture by Joseph Angus, M.A., D.D. -- revised by Samuel S. Green, D.D.,

and published 1907.

This Handbook was first published in 1853, but was brought up to date

by Samuel Green.

`It is believed that the Handbook still holds unchallenged the place it

has made for itself among aids to the interpretation of the Scriptures,

by the bold comprehensiveness of its plan, carried out with rare

combination of scholarship and profound reverence for the Bible as the

inspired and authoritative Word of God'.

The Handbook is divided into two parts.

Part 1.  The Bible as a Book.  Part 2.  The Books of the Bible.  Under Part 1

are grouped such subjects as Language, Canon, Transmission, Versions,

Credentials, Inspirations and Interpretations.  Under Part 2 is discussed

among other items The Genuineness and Authenticity of the Pentateuch, and a

useful chapter is devoted to the history of the Jews from Malachi to John the

Baptist.  In the New Testament studies, the epistles are analysed and key

words are given.  The Handbook refers to a smaller but very helpful little

work, published years ago entitled:

Help to the Reading of the Bible, by B. E. Nicholls, M.A.

The copy we

possess is the twenty -fourth edition.

The plan of the work is as follows:

To remind the reader of the Divine authority of the Bible, by

noticing some of the evidences, by which it is proved to be the Word of