. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . eratureand acting president of Troy university, where inthe former year he delivered an inaugural on Scholastic Education and Biblical Interpretation (Troy, 1859), and he then returned to Flushing toengage in public improvements. Since 1868 he hadbeen professor of exegetical theology in Drew theo-logical seminary, Madison, N. J. Wesleyan gavehim the degrees of D. D. and LL. D. in 1856 and1881 respectively. Dr. Strong travelled in Egyptand Palestine in 1874, and was a member of theAmerican branch of the Palestine explorationcommittee. He was also
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . eratureand acting president of Troy university, where inthe former year he delivered an inaugural on Scholastic Education and Biblical Interpretation (Troy, 1859), and he then returned to Flushing toengage in public improvements. Since 1868 he hadbeen professor of exegetical theology in Drew theo-logical seminary, Madison, N. J. Wesleyan gavehim the degrees of D. D. and LL. D. in 1856 and1881 respectively. Dr. Strong travelled in Egyptand Palestine in 1874, and was a member of theAmerican branch of the Palestine explorationcommittee. He was also one of the Old Testamentcompany of the committee for the revision of theauthorized vtT-ion of the Bible. In 1872 he wasa lay delegate to the general conference of theMethodist Episcopal church. He was the author of A New Harmony and Exposition of the Gospels (Xew York, 1852): Harmony in Greek (1854);Scripture History delineated from the BiblicalRecords and all other Accessible Sources (Madi-si m, X. J., 1878); Irenics, a Series of Essays show-. ing the Virtual Agreement between Science andthe Bible (New York, 1883); and The Tabernacleof Israel in the Desert (1888). He had edited, forthe American edition of Langes commentary,the parts on -Daniel (1876) and Esther (1877),and published a Literal Trans-lation of Eccle-siastes (1877).The chief workof his life is the. Cyclcipadia ofBiblical, Theo-logical, and Ec-clesiastical Liter-ature (10 vols.,1867-81; supple-ment. 2 vols.,1885-7). In thepreparation ofthe first threevolumes of thiswork, which wasbegun in 1853,he was the asso-ciate of its pro-jector, Dr. John McClintock (q. v.), who took chargeof the theological part, while he attended to thedepartment of biblical literature, but since thedeath of Dr. McClintock Dr. Strong had had solecharge. He had also prepared various questionmanuals for Sunday-schools and Bible classes,based on his Harmony of the Gospels, severalof which were edited by Daniel P. Kidder, D. D.(New York, 1853-4)
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