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Lifetime: 1842 - 1917 Passed: ≈ 107 years ago

Title

Pastor, Scholar

Country/Nationality

United States
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Bernhard Pick

Bernhard Pick was a German-American Lutheran pastor and scholar.

He studied at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and after became a pastor. As a scholar he contributed many articles to the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge and McClintock and James Strong's Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. He also provided the index to Johann Peter Lange's Commentary on the Old Testament 1882 and an "Index to the Ante-Nicene Fathers" (1887). Pick's interest in hymnology led to Luther as a Hymnist Philadelphia, 1875 and an edition of Luther's "Ein feste Burg" in 19 Languages 1880; enlarged in 21 languages, Chicago, 1883.

Books by Bernhard Pick

The Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew and Thomas  Cover image

The Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew and Thomas

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Romance Christianity Literary Collections Legends Martyrs Fantastic Fiction

The full title of this book, published in 1909, is The Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew and Thomas. As early as the second century, numerous legends concerning the fates of the Christian apostles were in circulation. These Acts, widely re...