Charles James Ball (1851-1924) was classical and Hebrew master at
Merchant Taylors School, chaplain of
Lincoln's Inn
The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar. (The other three are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn.) Lincoln ...
, some time reader of
Assyriology
Assyriology (from Greek , ''Assyriā''; and , '' -logia'') is the archaeological, anthropological, and linguistic study of Assyria and the rest of ancient Mesopotamia (a region that encompassed what is now modern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southea ...
in the
University of Oxford, and rector of St. Giles Church in
Bletchington
Bletchingdon (also known as Bletchington) is a village and civil parish north of Kidlington and southwest of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England. Bletchingdon parish includes the hamlet of Enslow just over west of the village. The 2011 Census r ...
, a village north of
Oxford.
[''Nature'']
Rev C. J. Ball
published 15 March 1924, accessed 14 April 2020
Writings
As a
biblical commentator, he wrote "The Prophecies of
Jeremiah with a Sketch of his Life and Times" (1890) for the ''Expositor's Bible'' series,
[Ball, C. J.]
The Expositor's Bible: The Prophecies of Jeremiah with a Sketch of his Life and Times
accessed 14 April 2020 and for the
Speaker's Commentary
Frederic Charles Cook (1 December 1804– 22 June 1889) was an English churchman, known as a linguist and the editor of the ''Speaker's Commentary'' on the Bible.
Life
Born at Millbrook, Hampshire, and later moved to Berkshire, he was admitted ...
,
and contributed the volumes on
2 Kings
The Book of Kings (, '' Sēfer Məlāḵīm'') is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Kings) in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It concludes the Deuteronomistic history, a history of Israel also including the books ...
and
1 and 2 Chronicles in
Charles Ellicott
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905) was a distinguished English Christian theologian, academic and churchman. He briefly served as Dean of Exeter, then Bishop of the united see of Gloucester and Bristol.
Early life and family
Ellicott was bo ...
's commentary series. Ball was also considered a "recognised authorit
in Assyriology",
with published notes on the Nin-Mag' Inscription and Inscriptions of
Nebuchadrezzar the Great
Nebuchadnezzar II (Babylonian cuneiform: ''Nabû-kudurri-uṣur'', meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir"; Biblical Hebrew: ''Nəḇūḵaḏneʾṣṣar''), also spelled Nebuchadrezzar II, was the second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling ...
.
Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology (Vol. XI., Part 8)
4 June 1889, accessed 30 May 2020
Ball notes, and considers plausible, the possibility that the prophet Jeremiah wrote the Book of Job
The Book of Job (; hbo, אִיּוֹב, ʾIyyōḇ), or simply Job, is a book found in the Ketuvim ("Writings") section of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), and is the first of the Poetic Books in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Scholars ar ...
"as some suppose", and suggests that Psalm 71, "which seems to be from his pen, and which wants the usual heading 'A Psalm of David'", could also have been written by Jeremiah.
References
British Assyriologists
Church of England priests
People associated with the University of Oxford
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