BP. JOSEPH SCHERESCHEWSKY (OCT. 14TH)
A Contemporary Icon of Bishop Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky Edited by Bp. Joseph ( Ancient Church of the West ) INTRODUCTION Joseph Schereschewsky was a remarkable Christian missionary bishop who created the biblical scholarship and scriptural dialect still used by Chinese Christians today, and laid the groundwork for the massive amounts of conversions that would reorient Chinese culture over the last century. To a greater or lesser extent, the success of all Christianity in the Chinese-speaking world was dependent upon his groundbreaking scholarship and the publication of his complete translation of the canon of the Old and New Testaments, including the Deuterocanonical Books. LIFE Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky was born of Jewish parents in Tanroggen, Russian Lithuania, the sixth of May 1831. He was educated partly in his native town and partly at the Rabbinical College at Thetomeer, Russia. He spent two years in the University of Breslau, Germany, and came to this country
