Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Bulgarians a name given to the Cathari, Albigenses, Petrobrussians, and other sects of the Middle Ages, because their origin was supposed traceable to Bulgaria. Seethe several titles. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Bulgarians (2) a name given to the Cathari, Albigenses, Petrobrussians, and other sects of the Middle Ages, because their origin … Continue reading “Bulgarians (2)”

Bulgarian Version Of The Scriptures This is in the vernacular of the Bulgarians, “a race, next to the Huns, the most terrible and most hateful to the invaded Europeans, and known in the West as early as the reign of Theodoric the Ostrogoth. Either mingling with, or bordering upon, the Slavonians, they spread over a … Continue reading “Bulgarian Version Of The Scriptures”

Bulgaria Independent monarchy in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula; area, 39,814 square miles. The region was inhabited in Roman times by Thraco-Illyrians, later by Slavs, and towards the end of the 7th century was overrun by the Bulgars, a people akin to the Huns and Tatars, who adopted the language of the conquered … Continue reading “Bulgaria (2)”

Bulfinger, Georg Bernard a German theologian and naturalist, was born in .1693. He was professor of theology at Tiibingen, and died in 1750. He wrote, Specimen Doctrince Veterum Sinarum mor. et Polit. (Frankfort, 1724):-De Tracheis Plantarum ex VMelone Observatio, in the memoirs of the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, … Continue reading “Bulfinger, Georg Bernard”

Bulfinch, Stephen Greenleaf, D.D a Unitarian minister and poet, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, June 18, 1809. He graduated from Columbia College, Washington, D.C., in 1826, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1830; served chiefly as pastor at Augusta, Maine, for the next seven years; afterwards preached and taught at Pittsburgh, Pa., and in … Continue reading “Bulfinch, Stephen Greenleaf, D.D”

Bulaeus, Christopher a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Ketschberg, near Dresden, Nov. 4,1602. He studied at Leipsic and Wittenberg, was in 1635 preacher at Mutzschen, and afterwards superintendent and assessor of the consistory at Wurtzen. In 1657 he was called to Dresden as superior counsellor of consistory, pastor, and superintendent, and died there … Continue reading “Bulaeus, Christopher”

BUL Occurring only in 1Ki 6:38, applied to the eighth month, usually called Marchesvan, which see. Solomon’s temple was finished in Bul. Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Bul (Heb. id. , for , rain, from the season of the year; Sept. ), the eighth ecclesiastical month of the Jewish year (1Ki 6:38), answering in … Continue reading “Bul”

Bukte is the name applied to a Lama, SEE LAMAISM, who professes to work miracles, particularly to cut himself open, take out his entrails, place them before him, and then resume his former condition as if nothing had happened. This spectacle, so revolting to the spectators, is very common in the Lamaseries of Tartary. The … Continue reading “Bukte”

Bukoba, vicariate apostolic of Vicariate Apostolic of Bukoba erected 8 April 1929 from the Vicariate Apostolic of Tabora and Vicariate Apostolic of Uganda; entrusted to the White Fathers. Elevated to the diocese of Bukoba on 25 March 1953. Name changed to the diocese of Rulenge on 21 June 1960. Catholic-Hierarchy.Org New Catholic Dictionary Fuente: New … Continue reading “Bukoba, vicariate apostolic of”

Bukkiah (Heb. Bukkiya’hu, , wasted by Jehovah; Sept. v. r. ), a Kohathite Levite, of the sons of Heman, one of the musicians in the Temple, being appointed by David the leader of the sixth band or course in the service, consisting of himself and eleven of his kindred (1Ch 25:4; 1Ch 25:13). B.C. 1014. … Continue reading “Bukkiah”