"Part of the material in the following pages was originally collected and presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy in the University of Pennsylvania." - Pref.
"Sex [p. 345-357] The superstitions under this rubric are printed in a separate fascicle."
v. 1. 1708-1742 -- I. Ephrata of the present day -- II. Beyond the Cocalico -- III. Advent of the Palatines -- IV. German pilgrims -- V. The Weaver's apprentice -- VI. The Labadists on the Bohemia Manor -- VII. The hut in the forest -- VIII. The German Baptist Brethren -- IX. The New Dunkers on the Conestoga -- X. The Cradle of German literature -- XI. Alexander Mack -- XII. Koch-Halekung, the serpent's den -- XIII. A retrospect -- XIV. A eventful year -- XV. The awakening of the Tulpehoken -- XVI. Kedar -- XVII. Jacob's Kampff und Ritter-platz -- XVIII. The monastery on the Wissahickon -- XIX. Unitas Fratrum -- XX. The habits of the orders -- XXI. Roster of the celibates -- XXII. The Weyrauchs Hugel -- XXIII. The Zionitic Brotherhood -- XXIV. The Amwell Dunkers -- XXV. The house of prayer -- XXVI. Peniel -- XXVII. A celestial visit -- XXVIII. The Skippack Brethren -- XXIX. The Pennsylvania Synods -- XXX. The order of the mustard seed -- XXXI. Hebron -- XXXII. Saron -- XXXIII. Bethania.
v.2. 1742-1800 -- I. Christopher Sauer and his German Bible -- II. Magister Johannes Hildebrand -- III. The great comet of 1743 -- IV. The pilgrimage to New England -- V. Industrial feature of the community -- VI. The music of the Cloister -- VII. The mystic of the Cocalico -- VIII. The rule of the Sisterhood -- IX. The Eckerlins -- X. The Ephrata Press -- XI. The Nantmel revival -- XII. The Gimsheim revival -- XIII. Conrad Weiser -- XIV. Educational departments -- XV. The visit of Israel Acrelius -- XVI. The Valleys of Virginia -- XVII. Snow Hill -- XVIII. Exoricism of fire -- XIX. Friedsam Gottrecht -- XX. Prior Jaebez -- XXI. Issues of the Kloster Press -- The Ephrata register (burial record)
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From the editor -- A Fraktur tribute to Professor Earl C. Haag / Peter V. Fritsch -- A tribute to a friend and fellow scholar / C. Richard Beam -- Ernest Waldo Bechtel (1923-88): the leading Pennsylvania poet of his generation / C. Richard Beam -- The first college course in Pennsylvania German / William W. Donner -- Reverend Howard J. Frey's Pennsylvania German service at Swamps Community Chapel in Kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania, Saturday, 29 September 1984 / K.A. "Butch" Reigart -- A letter defining Old Order Mennonite worship in the nineteenth century / Amos B. Hoover -- New directions in a traditional Pennsylvania German healing practice: a twenty-first century powwower / David W. Kriebel -- Language and otherness: popular fiction and the Amish / Karen M. Johnson-Weiner -- An Amish mortuary ritual at the intersection of cultural anthropology and lexicography / Joshua R. Brown -- "Mir schwetze noch die Mudderschprooch!": zur Geschichte und Zukunft des Pennsylvaniadeutschen in den USA / Michael Werner -- Pennsylvania German in Lyndon, Kansas: variation, change, decline / Michael R. DeHaven -- Solving the preacher's dilemma: communication strategies in Old Order Amish sermons / Jörg Meindl -- The comprehensive Pennsylvania German dictionary brings back memories / Jennifer L. Trout -- Kucheheiser: cake and mead shop traditions / Alan G. Keyser -- Der Schtruwwelpitter: Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, dutchified by Earl C. Haag / Walter Sauer -- An 1857 version of the Schnitzelbank-Song from Basel, Switzerland / William D. Keel -- Revisiting Aunt Hannah: African-American folk humor in nineteenth-century Lancaster County / Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. -- Wortfindungsprobleme im Sprachgebrauch von Minderheitensprechern / Elisabeth Knipf-Komlósi -- Frühes deutsches Stadtbuch, Landgeschichte, Mundarten: Geistig-religiöse Strömungen in Europa vor der Entdeckung Amerikas / Helmut Protze -- Contributors.
On front of front flyleaf: "Compliments of C. Richard Beam, Center for Pennsylvania German Studies, Millersville University.