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Edwin Bissell was born on March 2, 1832, in Schoharie, New York, United States, the son of George C. and Elizabeth (White) Bissell.
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The Pentateuch Its Origin: And Structure, an Examination of Recent Theories (Classic Reprint)
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While pursuing Old Testament studies in the University at Leipsic, some years since, the writer became warmly interested in the subject of Pentateuch criticism, especially in connection with the more private societies (G esellschaften) of Delitzsch and Guthe, where it was made the chief topic of discussion. Having once entered upon it, he found the questions it raised of too grave a nature to be relinquished without a serious eifort at settlement. In fact, in view of the startling conclusions reached by an eminently respectable portion of German scholarship, he felt bound to give reasons, at least to himself, for his faith in an Old Testament revelation. He has accordingly had before him, for the most part, the criticism in its German form. For his readers this method of treatment will have the advantage, that, while the works of such representative writers as Graf and Wellhausen are no less easily comprehensible in their leading principles and terms, they fully Minclude, and are the evident source of, the most that has been said on that side of the question in England and A merica. A little more than one half of the present book has already appeared in print: the papers numbered i., iii., v., vii., viii., in the g Bibliotheca Sacra during the years 1882-84; and iv. in the Journal of the Society for Biblical Literature and Exegesis for July -U ecem ber, 1884. All such papers, however, have been carefully revised, and to some of them considerable additions been made. -ct A work of this kind, if it is to be faithfully done, requires the conscientious study of problems of the utmost intricacy and perplexity. The cursory reader, it is likely, will turn rapidly over the papers numbered iii.-vi., dealing mostly with the origin and inner relationship of Pentateuch laws. But to the more thoughtful reader and the student who is aware that, for a score of years, it ha (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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Genesis Printed in Colors: Showing the Original Sources From Which it is Supposed to Have Been Compiled (1892)
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The Apocrypha of the Old Testament: With Historical Introductions, a Revised Translation, and Notes Critical and Expplanatory (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Apocrypha of the Old Testament: With Historical Introductions, a Revised Translation, and Notes Critical and Expplanatory The: apocryphal books of the Old Testament have been greatly neglected by English divines. No critical commentary in the English language has appeared since that of Richard Arnald (died first published in London 1744, and for the fourth time (with corree tions by Pitman), in 1822, and embodied in the Critical Commentary of Patrick, Lowth, Arnald, Whitby, and Lowman. Since the British and Foreign, and the American Bible Societies have ceased to circulate them, it is even difficult for the ordinary reader to obtain them. They are, it is true, not equal in authority to the canonical books: they did not belong to the Hebrew canon; they were written after the extinction of prophecy; they are not quoted in the New Testament (the Book of Enoch referred to by Jude is not among the Apocrypha); the most learned among the Christian fathers, Origen, Eusebius, and Jerome, excluded them from the canon in its strict sense, although they made frequent use of them; they contain some Jewish superstitions, and furnish the Roman Catholics proof-texts for their doctrines of purgatory, prayers for the dead, and the meritoriousness Of good works. Nevertheless they have very great historical importance: they fill the gap between the Old and New Testaments; they explain the rise of that condition of the Jewish people, their society and religion, in which we find it at the time of Christ and the Apostles; they contain much valuable and useful information. The books Of the Maccabees make us acquainted with the heroic period of Jewish history; Ecclesiasticus is almost equal to the Proverbs for its treasures of practical wisdom; Tobit and Judith are among the earliest and most interesting specimens of religious fiction. The Apocrypha are first found in the Greek Version Of the Old Testament (the Septuagint), from this they passed into the Latin Vulgate, and from this into all the Older Protestant versions and editions, though sometimes in smaller type, or with the heading that, while they are useful and edifying reading, they must not be put on a par with the inspired books of the Bible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Biblical Antiquities: A Hand Book for Use in Seminaries, Sabbath Schools, Families and by All Students of the Bible (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Biblical Antiquities: A Hand Book for Use in Seminaries, Sabbath Schools, Families and by All Students of the Bible That branch of biblical science known as antiquities has to do with the peoples among whom _the Bible arose, especially with the Hebrews. In this work the subject is made to refer chiefly to the social, civil and religious conditions of the Hebrew people in biblical times. The antiquities of other historically related peoples are considered only as far as they shed light on those of the Hebrews or otherwise contribute to a clearer under standing of the Bible. The advantages of a knowledge of their antiquities to a stu dent of the Scriptures cannot well be overrated. It serves to place him in the position' 'of one who lived in the times when they first appeared and in the lands where they were actually written. My aim has been to present the principal facts of biblical antiquities in the stricter sense, together with some of their moral and religious bearings, and to show their true place and significance in the plan and history of redemption. No attempt has been made to treat largely of the geography or topography, the political or natural history, of the lands of the Bible, each of which themes would require a volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Edwin Cone Bissell
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Edwin prepared for college at Monson Academy, graduated from Amherst in 1855. He then began his theological studies at Hartford Theological Seminary, finishing them at Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 1859.
Career
In September 1859 Edwin was ordained to the ministry in West Hampton, Massachussets, where he remained as pastor of the Congregational church until 1864. During this pastorate he organized Company K of the 52nd Massachusetts Volunteers and for the year 1862-1863 served as their captain at the front. In 1864 he became pastor of the Green Street Congregational Church in San Francisco, remaining until 1869 and serving also two years as editor of The Pacific. For a year after this (1869 - 1870) he served as pastor of the Fort Street Church in Honolulu, but was called thence to the Congregational Church in Winchester, Massachussets, where he remained until 1873. His varied experience in the pastorate was then still further diversified by five years' service under the A. B. C. F. M. as missionary in Austria, working among the Bohemians of Gratz.
Bissell returned to America in 1878 and spent two years of special study at Boston and then spent a year or two more in Germany at the University of Leipzig. In 1880 he published a revised translation with introduction and notes of The Apocrypha of the Old Testament, being Volume XV of the American edition of Lange's Commentaries and in the following year was made Nettleton professor of Hebrew language and literature in Hartford Theological Seminary. This position he held until 1892, when he resigned to become professor of Hebrew in McCormick Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Chicago, where he served until his death.
Bissell was a patient and painstaking teacher, interesting himself in the questions of historical criticism and documentary analysis which were then beginning to agitate the American church, and devoting to them a large number of contributions to reviews and periodicals. He published Biblical Antiquities in 1888, a textbook on Hebrew grammar in 1891, and the Book of Genesis in 1892. In all these works he defended the traditional view, applying his linguistic knowledge against the now dominant theory of the Graf-Wellhausen school.
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Edwin Bissel was a distinguished clergyman, who also was an educator and writer. One of his major literary works was The Historic Origin of the Bible (1873), which won for him in 1874 the honorary degree of D. D. from his alma mater, an honor later duplicated by Lake Forest University. His other chief work was The Pentateuch, Its Origin and Structure, which appeared in 1885.
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The Pentateuch Its Origin: And Structure, an Examination of Recent Theories (Classic Reprint)
(While pursuing Old Testament studies in the University at...)
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Biblical Antiquities: A Hand Book for Use in Seminaries, Sabbath Schools, Families and by All Students of the Bible (Classic Reprint)
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The Apocrypha of the Old Testament: With Historical Introductions, a Revised Translation, and Notes Critical and Expplanatory (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from The Apocrypha of the Old Testament: With His...)
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Genesis Printed in Colors: Showing the Original Sources From Which it is Supposed to Have Been Compiled (1892)
(Originally published in 1892. This volume from the Cornel...)
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The Pentateuch Its Origin: And Structure, an Examination of Recent Theories (Classic Reprint)
Connections
Bissell married Emily Pomeroy, daughter of Col. Oren Pomeroy of Somers, Connecticut.
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Religion
Protestant