内容提示: 624 ENCYCLOPAEDIA JUDAICA, Second Edition, Volume 1Britain and Prussia, with missionary as well as political objec-tives, Alexander was appointed the frst incumbent (Novem-ber 1841). Although the British consul, on the instructions of the Foreign Ofce, did not support his missionary ...
“Religion in the Past and Present”); and theLexikon für Theologie und Kirche(1930–38; “Lexicon of Theology and the Church”). Other significant encyclopaedias of religion includeThe Encyclopaedia of Islam(new ed., begun 1960); theEncyclopaedia Judaica(1972); andThe Encyclopedia of Religion(...
Encyclopaedia - Encyclopaedias in general: Of the various types of reference works—who’s whos, dictionaries, atlases, gazetteers, directories, and so forth—the encyclopaedia is the only one that can be termed self-contained. Each of the others conveys