Excerpt from Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. 1: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography, and Natural History; A to Gennesaret, Land OfIt would be impossible within the limits of a Preface to specify more particularly the assistance obtained in other departments. As each writer is alone responsible for his own contributions, differences of opinion must naturally occur, and the Editors could not take the liberty of altering materially articles thus signed, nor would it have been desirable, if it had been possible to do so. In the present state of Biblical criticism, it is better that different schools should be represented in the Dictionary than that strict uniformity should be secured. In the case of articles which have been revised by other writers, the initials of the original authors have been appended with those of the revisers, but the latter are alone responsible for the articles in their present form.Few articles of any importance have been reprinted without material alteration. The chief exceptions are, for obvious reasons, those by the late Dean Stanley, and the present Bishop of Durham though some of the articles by the latter writer have, at his request, been revised by Professor Ryle of Cambridge.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.… (more)