Browns Bible Dictionary Vol I & II - 1800
A fabulous two volume collection published in Montrose and written by The Rev. John Brown John Brown of Haddington (1722 -87) who was a highly-educated Scottish minister and author.
Vol I extends to 635 pages and has a fold out plate on the Title Page.
Vol II extends to 672 pages.
Self-educated and entirely self-made, Brown started out as a shepherd. Soon, he discovered he had a gift for languages and came to know and speak at least ten, including Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
Brown's career choices were very varied. Following his experience as a shepherd, Brown became a travelling merchant, a soldier in Edinburgh, a school master and then a churchman.
From 1750 until his death, Brown was a minister of the Secession Church in Haddington.
In the 1780s, he obtained a professorship in Divinity in this denomination and started training other churchman.
He also wrote a number of books, some of the best-known being a Self-Interpreting Bible and a Dictionary of the Bible.
A fabulous two volume collection published in Montrose and written by The Rev. John Brown John Brown of Haddington (1722 -87) who was a highly-educated Scottish minister and author.
Vol I extends to 635 pages and has a fold out plate on the Title Page.
Vol II extends to 672 pages.
Self-educated and entirely self-made, Brown started out as a shepherd. Soon, he discovered he had a gift for languages and came to know and speak at least ten, including Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
Brown's career choices were very varied. Following his experience as a shepherd, Brown became a travelling merchant, a soldier in Edinburgh, a school master and then a churchman.
From 1750 until his death, Brown was a minister of the Secession Church in Haddington.
In the 1780s, he obtained a professorship in Divinity in this denomination and started training other churchman.
He also wrote a number of books, some of the best-known being a Self-Interpreting Bible and a Dictionary of the Bible.
A fabulous two volume collection published in Montrose and written by The Rev. John Brown John Brown of Haddington (1722 -87) who was a highly-educated Scottish minister and author.
Vol I extends to 635 pages and has a fold out plate on the Title Page.
Vol II extends to 672 pages.
Self-educated and entirely self-made, Brown started out as a shepherd. Soon, he discovered he had a gift for languages and came to know and speak at least ten, including Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
Brown's career choices were very varied. Following his experience as a shepherd, Brown became a travelling merchant, a soldier in Edinburgh, a school master and then a churchman.
From 1750 until his death, Brown was a minister of the Secession Church in Haddington.
In the 1780s, he obtained a professorship in Divinity in this denomination and started training other churchman.
He also wrote a number of books, some of the best-known being a Self-Interpreting Bible and a Dictionary of the Bible.