Seventh-day Adventist

Encyclopedia

Second Revised Edition

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Associate Editor

JULIA NEUFFER

Assistant Editors

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Revising Editors—1976

DONALD E. MANSELL

BOBBIE JANE VAN DOLSON

Revising Editors—1995

BOBBIE JANE VAN DOLSON

LEO R. VAN DOLSON

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Associate Book Editor

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Contributors

Abdul-Shereeff, P.

Abel, L. Marcel

Abraham, Dittu

Abrahamsen, Karl

Acosta-Muñiz, Eloy

Adams, R. R.

Adams, W. Melvin

Adeogun, Caleb

Aeschlimann B., Alfredo

Afenir, J. O.

Aga, Negassa

Agdon, Solomon S.

Aguadera, Rogelio J.

Aikman, James A.

Aimonetti, Michel

Airey, Wilfred J.

Aitken, Dorothy

Aittala, W. E.

Alagusundaram, K.

Alalade, A. A.

Aldridge, Richard A.

Allen, David

Allen, Jane

Allen, Ken

Allen, Sydney

Alonso, Ramiro P.

Alsaybar, B. B.

Alway, Raymond

Amelung, Erich

Amoah, John Kenneth

Ampuero Matta, Victor E.

Amundsen, Wesley

Andersen, G. E.

Andersen, Howard C.

Anderson, Carl Dicmann

Anderson, Carl P.

Anderson, G. T.

Anderson, J. P.

Anderson, John David

Anderson, Lyle C.

Anderson, Roy Allan

Andrade Guerra, Segundo Eloy

Anduik, Helge

Anniss, George L.

Anspach, Helen B.

Anthony, W. D

Anttila, Simo

Appave, S. W.

Appenzeller, R. E.

Aritonang, Urbanus H.

Armer, E.

Armour, Eugene

Arnold, Rhonda

Arnold, Rudolf

Arthur, Errol M.

Ashbaugh, Kraid I.

Åsheim, Frithjof

Åsheim, Trygve

Ashlock, J. F.

Astner, Margaret M.

Atherton, Herbert

Atkins, Mrs. Lloyd

Attakora, Kwasi

Avendano, Nelson U.

Ayala, Manuel G.

Azevedo, Roberto Cesar de

Aziz, Basim

Ba Khin

Baasch, David H.

Babalola, David O.

Babcock, Fern Gibson

Baden, P. G.

Badenas, Roberto

Baduza, S.B.M.

Bahr, O.

Bailey, Carl M.

Bailie, Ira E.

Bairagee, A.

Baker, H. C.

Baker, Sue Ellen

Baldwin, Jennifer M.

Balharrie, Gordon

Ballew, Daniel A.

Bangloy, J. A.

Banks, Rosa T.

Banyie, Lawrence

Bara, John M.

Barayuga, Petronilo J.

Barbuscia, Ignazio

Barger, R. Curtis

Barnes, Belvina

Barnett, Paulene

Barnett, Richard J.

Baro, Saul Perez

Barrow, R. M.

Barrus, Iva May

Bartlett, Alvin M.

Bartlett, V. L.

Basanta, Febo

Bascom, Mrs. V. E.

Bassham, W. S.

Batoebara, Damin

Battle, Maurice T.

Battye, Walter E.

Bauman, Herman

Bautista, Jose ...