Charles James Ball (1851-1924) was classical and Hebrew master at Merchant Taylors' School, chaplain of Lincoln's Inn, some time reader of Assyriology in the University of Oxford, and rector of St. Giles Church in Bletchington, a village 8 miles (13 km) north of Oxford.
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, and for the Speaker's Commentary, and contributed the volumes on 2 Kings and 1 and 2 Chronicles in Charles Ellicott'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.
Ball notes, and considers plausible, the possibility that the prophet Jeremiah wrote the Book of Job "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.
Ball also translated volume one (Genesis) of Hermann Hugo Paul Haupt's Polychrome Bible.
References
- ^ Nature, Rev C. J. Ball, published 15 March 1924, accessed 14 April 2020
- ^ Ball, C. J., The Expositor's Bible: The Prophecies of Jeremiah with a Sketch of his Life and Times, accessed 14 April 2020
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library, C. J. Ball, accessed 30 May 2020
- Ball, C. J., 2 Kings, in Ellicott's Commentary for Modern Readers, accessed 8 November 2022
- Ball, C. J., 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ellicott's Commentary for Modern Readers, accessed 13 April 2020
- Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology (Vol. XI., Part 8), 4 June 1889, accessed 30 May 2020
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