New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (13 vols.)

by Samuel Macauley Jackson

Publisher:

Funk & Wagnalls

, 1908–1914

Overview

For more than a century, the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge has set the standard for biblical and theological reference works. Over a period of nearly four decades, nearly 100 editors and more than 600 scholars under the editorship of Philip Schaff collaborated to write the most detailed and comprehensive biblical and theological encyclopedia in the English language.

Using the Realencyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche, edited by Johann Jakob Herzog, as its model, Philip Schaff aims to give readers “all the information needed to pursue any subject to its roots.” For the first time in this third edition, Schaff successfully brought together into a singular reference work the most important scholarship from biblical studies, historical and doctrinal theology, archaeology, geography, church history, patristics, and comparative religion. The resulting work ranks among the best-selling and most-cited Christian reference materials, and has been the first stop for pastors, teachers, parents, students, and scholars for more than a century.

With your digital library, you can get even more out of this massive reference work! Searches in Logos will pull from articles and entries in the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, and all scripture references within the encyclopedia link directly to your Greek and Hebrew texts and English translations. What’s more, the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge provides secondary sources for many of the primary texts already in your digital library, giving you instant access to secondary literature, definitions, and bibliographic materials for your research projects, sermon preparation, and Bible study. The value of your entire library will be enhanced by the digital version of one of the largest biblical and theological reference works ever published!

Key Features

• Bibliographical material included for each entry
• Thousands of biographical entries
• An entire volume devoted to indexes, bibliography, appendices, and other source materials

Praise for the Print Edition

Indispensable . . . the best reference work in the entire field.

—Homiletic Review

. . .a theological library in itself.

—Westminster Theological Journal

The usefulness of this encyclopedia is to be found in its comprehensiveness. No extant work can match this. It is also particularly strong in biography, where it will be found an invaluable aid to investigation into the lives of the worthies of the past.

—Bibliotheca Sacra

This work is not a mere reprint. It is enlarged to nearly three times the size. . . . It includes a full line of Bible Dictionary articles, but includes much more—histories of religions and of religious denominations and societies and movements and work, articles on religious organization and pedagogy, the biographies of men, living and dead . . . discussions of doctrine and writings, data of comparative religion. . . . The makeup of these volumes is excellent, and the mechanical work fine.

—Princeton Review

Product Details

• Editor of the German Edition: Johann Jakob Herzog
• Translator and editor of the English Edition: Philip Schaff
• Editor of the 1908–1914 Printing: Samuel Macauley Jackson
• Associate Editors of the 1908–1914 Printing: Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Volumes: 13
• Pages: 6,328

Volume 1

• Editor of the German Edition: Johann Jakob Herzog
• Translator and editor of the English Edition: Philip Schaff
• Editor of the 1908–1914 Printing: Samuel Macauley Jackson
• Associate Editors of the 1908–1914 Printing: Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1908
• Pages: 500

 

Volume 2

• Editor of the German Edition: Johann Jakob Herzog
• Translator and editor of the English Edition: Philip Schaff
• Editor of the 1908–1914 Printing: Samuel Macauley Jackson
• Associate Editors of the 1908–1914 Printing: Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1908
• Pages: 500

 

Volume 3

• Editor of the German Edition: Johann Jakob Herzog
• Translator and editor of the English Edition: Philip Schaff
• Editor of the 1908–1914 Printing: Samuel Macauley Jackson
• Associate Editors of the 1908–1914 Printing: Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1909
• Pages: 500

 

Volume 4

• Editor of the German Edition: Johann Jakob Herzog
• Translator and editor of the English Edition: Philip Schaff
• Editor of the 1908–1914 Printing: Samuel Macauley Jackson
• Associate Editors of the 1908–1914 Printing: Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1909
• Pages: 500

 

Volume 5

• Editor of the German Edition: Johann Jakob Herzog
• Translator and editor of the English Edition: Philip Schaff
• Editor of the 1908–1914 Printing: Samuel Macauley Jackson
• Associate Editors of the 1908–1914 Printing: Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1909
• Pages: 500

 

Volume 6

• Editor of the German Edition: Johann Jakob Herzog
• Translator and editor of the English Edition: Philip Schaff
• Editor of the 1908–1914 Printing: Samuel Macauley Jackson
• Associate Editors of the 1908–1914 Printing: Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1910
• Pages: 500

 

Volume 7

• Editor of the German Edition: Johann Jakob Herzog
• Translator and editor of the English Edition: Philip Schaff
• Editor of the 1908–1914 Printing: Samuel Macauley Jackson
• Associate Editors of the 1908–1914 Printing: Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1910
• Pages: 502

 

Volume 8

• Editor of the German Edition: Johann Jakob Herzog
• Translator and editor of the English Edition: Philip Schaff
• Editor of the 1908–1914 Printing: Samuel Macauley Jackson
• Associate Editors of the 1908–1914 Printing: Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1910
• Pages: 500

 

Volume 9

• Editor of the German Edition: Johann Jakob Herzog
• Translator and editor of the English Edition: Philip Schaff
• Editor of the 1908–1914 Printing: Samuel Macauley Jackson
• Associate Editors of the 1908–1914 Printing: Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1911
• Pages: 500

 

Volume 10

• Editor of the German Edition: Johann Jakob Herzog
• Translator and editor of the English Edition: Philip Schaff
• Editor of the 1908–1914 Printing: Samuel Macauley Jackson
• Associate Editors of the 1908–1914 Printing: Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1911
• Pages: 499

 

Volume 11

• Editor of the German Edition: Johann Jakob Herzog
• Translator and editor of the English Edition: Philip Schaff
• Editor of the 1908–1914 Printing: Samuel Macauley Jackson
• Associate Editors of the 1908–1914 Printing: Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1911
• Pages: 504

 

Volume 12

• Editor of the German Edition: Johann Jakob Herzog
• Translator and editor of the English Edition: Philip Schaff
• Editor of the 1908–1914 Printing: Samuel Macauley Jackson
• Associate Editors of the 1908–1914 Printing: Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1912
• Pages: 599

 

Volume 13

• Editor of the German Edition: Johann Jakob Herzog
• Translator and editor of the English Edition: Philip Schaff
• Editor of the 1908–1914 Printing: Samuel Macauley Jackson
• Associate Editors of the 1908–1914 Printing: Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore
• Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Company
• Publication Date: 1913
• Pages: 211

 

About Samuel Macauley Jackson

Samuel Macauley Jackson (1851–1912) was educated at Princeton Theological Seminary and Union Seminary. He then studied for two years at the University of Leipzig, and then earned his DD from New York University, where he became professor of church history. He served as an editor and author for numerous prestigious projects, including The American Church History Series, The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Thought, The Encyclopedia of Living Divines, and The Concise Dictionary of Religious Knowledge. He also edited The Heroes of the Reformation, and wrote one volume in that series on the life of Zwingli.

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