Edersheim, Alfred

Ph.D. (Kiel, 1855), D.D. (Vienna, Berlin, and New College, Edinburgh), Church of England; b. of Jewish parents at Vienna, March 7, 1825. He studied in the gymnasium and university at Vienna; was baptized in Pesth, Hungary; pursued his studies at Berlin in 1843 entered New College, Edinburgh; and in 1849 became minister of the Free Church, Old Aberdeen. Being compelled by ill health to seek a warmer climate, he went to Torquay, Southwestern England, in 1861, where he gathered a congregation, which built him a chirrch (St. Andrew's). His health again obliging him temporarily to give up preaching, he lived for a while in literary retirement at Bourne mouth. In 1875 he was ordained deacon and priest of the Church of England, and for a year was the (unsalaried) curate of the Abbey Church, Christ church, Hants, near Bourne mouth. In 1876 he became vicar of Loders, Dor sets hire; resigned in 1883, and removed to Oxford, where he is still living. From 1880 to 1884 he was W rarburtonian lecturer at Lincoln's Inn, London. In 1881 he was made honorary M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford; in 1883 M.A. by decree of Convocation of the University of Oxford; and 1884-86 was select preacher to the university. He has also been lecturing in its " Honours School of Theology," upon prophecy. His publications as author, translator, editor, and contributor to dictionaries and serial works, are very numerous (cf. list in Crock ford's Clerical tion from A.D. 70-312, 2d ed. Edinburgh, 1857; The Jubilee Rhythm of St. Bernard, and other Hymns, chiefly from the Latin, London, 1866; The Golden Diary of Heart-Converse with Jesus in the Psalms, 1874, 2d ed. 1877; The Temple: its Ministry and Services as they were in the Time of Jesus Christ, 1874; Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ, 1876; The Exodus, and the Wandering in the Wilderne , 1876; The Life and Times of Jesus the. Me iah, 1883 (November), 2 vols., 3d ed, 1886 (April); Prophecy and History in relation to the Me iah (War burton i an lectures, 1880-84), 1885; The History of Israel from the Sacrifice on Carmel to the Death of Jehu, 1885.