Bernhard Pick


Bernhard Pick was a German-American Lutheran pastor and scholar.
He studied at Union Theological Seminary in the [City of New York|Union Theological Seminary] in New York City and after became a pastor. As a scholar he contributed many articles to the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge and McClintock and James Strong's Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. He also provided the index to Johann Peter Lange's Commentary on the Old Testament 1882 and an "Index to the Ante-Nicene Fathers". Pick's interest in hymnology led to Luther as a Hymnist Philadelphia, 1875 and an edition of Luther's "Ein feste Burg" in 19 Languages 1880; enlarged in 21 languages, Chicago, 1883.

Works

Many of Pick's works are now being reissued with 21st-century publication dates:Judisches Volksleben zur Zeit Jesus Rochester, New York, 1880A Historical Sketch of the Jews since the Destruction of Jerusalem 1887The Life of Christ according to Extra-Canonical Sources 1887The Talmud: what it is and what it says about Jesus and the Christians 1887
He also translated Franz Delitzsch Jewish Artisan Life in the Time of Jesus 1883