Identifier: 07244119.1178.emory.edu
Title: A dictionary of religious knowledge (electronic resource): for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Conant, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1891
Subjects: Theology Religion
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
a-to in their purity; the second, in a modifiedform; the third, pursuing probability as theonly attainable wisdom. Socrates is said tohave professed that all he knew was thathe knew nothing; Arcesilaus, the founderof the Middle Academy, to have denied thathe knew even that. The Academics andEpicureans (q. v.) were prominent sects inphilosophy at the time of Christs birth.Accad, one of the five cities that were built by Nimrod in the land of Shinar, orBabylonia.1 It is supposed that a remarka-ble pile of ancient buildings, known by thename of Aker-koof, and situated in Sittacene,about nine miles west from the Tigris, maybe the remains of the ancient city; butnothing certain can be ascertained on thesubject, especially as so little is known ofthe original place itself. Accho (sun-heated), now called Acre, ormore usually, by Europeans, St. Jean dAcre,the most important sea-port town on theSyrian coast, about thirty miles south ofTyre. It was situated on a slightly project-» Gen. x., 10.
Text Appearing After Image:
The Bay of Acre. ACELDAMA 14 ing headland, at the northern extremity ofthat spacious bay which is formed by thebold promontory of Carniel on the oppositeside. In the division of Canaan among thetribes, Accho fell to the lot of Asher, but wasnever wrested from its original inhabitants ;and hence it is reckoned by the classicalwriters among the cities of Phoenicia. Nofurther mention is made of it in the O. T.history, but it rose to importance after thedismemberment of the Macedonian empire.Along with the rest of Phoenicia, it fell tothe lot of Egypt, and was named Ptolemais,after one of the Ptolemies—probably Soter.It was afterward taken by Antiochus theGreat, and attached to his kingdom. Theonly notice of it iu the N. T. is in connectionwith St. Pauls passage from Tyre to Caesa-rea, where it is called by its Egyptian name,for which, however, wdth the decay of Greekand Roman sway, the ancient name has beensubstituted. In modern history it possessesa position of greater importance. The

Note About Images