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Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey <ref name="term_40512" />
<p> was born in [[Germany]] of [[Jewish]] parents. At the age of twenty-five he became a Christian, and in 1816 came to the United States. He was then and for some years a Presbyterian minister, and subsequently became a Baptist. But he never ceased to be a Jew in feeling, and was an enthusiastic votary of Rabbinical studies, whigh influenced him as a Biblical interpreter. He labored chiefly for the conversion of the Jews, was agent of "The American Society for Ameliorating the [[Condition]] of the Jews" and edited a periodical called The Jewish Intelligencer. He died at Pontiac, Michigan, in 1850, in the 79th year of his age. He was the author of a "Narrative" of his life: '''''—''''' "Joseph and Benjamin," a work on the differences between [[Jews]] and Christians: '''''—''''' Judah and Israel; or the [[Restoration]] of [[Christianity]] (1837, 12mo): '''''—''''' Lectures on [[Scripture]] [[Types]] (1841, 12mo). He also published an edition of the Hebrew, Bible, a [[Hebrew]] Lexicon, Grammar, and Reader, and The Hebrew Student's Pocket Companion. See Sprague, Annals, 6:757. (L.E.S.) </p>

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<ref name="term_40512"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/frey,+joseph+samuel+christian+frederick Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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