Rev. SELAH MERRILL, D.D., LL.D., U.S. Consul at Jerusalem.
Rev. JAMES MILLAR, M.A., B.D., New Cumnock.
Rey. GEORGE MILLIGAN, M.A., B.D., Caputh, Perthshire.
Rey. R. WAppy Moss, Professor of Classics in the Didsbury College, Manchester.
Rev. WARREN JOSEPH MOouLTOoN, M.A., B.D., Ph.D., Instructor in the Biblical and Semitic Department of Yale University, New Haven.
Rev. WILLIAM Murr, M.A., B.D., B.L., Blair- gowrie.
W. MAx MULLER, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Old Testament Literature in the Reformed Episcopal Church Seminary, Philadelphia.
Rev. J. O. F. Murray, M.A., Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
JouN L. Myres, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., Student of Christ Church, Oxford.
EBERHARD NESTLE, Ph.D., D.D., Professor at Maulbronn.
Rey. THoMAS Nicou, M.A., D.D., Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism in the Uni- versity of Aberdeen.
W. Nowack, Ph.D., Professor of Theology in the University of Strassburg.
Rev. JAMES ORR, M.A., D.D., Professor of Church History in the United Presbyterian Hall, Edinburgh.
Rev. WILLIAM P. PATERSON, M.A., D.D., Pro- fessor of Systematic Theology in the Uni- versity of Aberdeen.
Rev. JAMES PATRICK, M.A., B.D., B.Sc., Examiner for Degrees in Divinity in the University of St. Andrews.
Rey. JOHN PATRICK, M.A., D.D., Professor of Biblical Criticism and Biblical Antiquities in the University of Edinburgh.
ARTHUR S. PEAKE, M.A., Professor in the Primi- tive Methodist College, Manchester, and Lecturer in Lancashire Independent College ; sometime Fellow of Merton and Lecturer in Mansfield College, Oxford.
WILLIAM FLINDERS PETRIE, M.A., D.C.L., Pro- fessor of Egyptology in University College, London.
THEOPHILUS GOLDRIDGE PINCHES, M.R.A.S., of the Egyptian and Assyrian Department in the Britis Rasen
Rey. ALFRED PLUMMER, M.A., D.D., Master of University College, Durham.
Rev. FRANK CHAMBERLIN PORTER, M.A., Ph.D., D.D., Professor of Biblical Theology in the Divinity School of Yale University, New Haven.
Rev. HARVEY PorTER, B.A., Ph.D., Professor in the American College, Beyrout, Syria.
Rev. GEORGE Post, M.D., F.L.S., Professor in the American College, Beyrout, Syria.
AUTHORS OF ARTICLES IN VOL. ΠῚ
Ika MAovRIcE Price, M.A., B.D., Ph.D., Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures in the University of Chicago.
Rey. CyRIL HENRY PRICHARD, M.A., late Classical Scholar of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Lecturer at St. Olave’s, Southwark.
Rey. GEorGE T. Purves, D.D., LL.D., recently Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis in Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey.
WiLuiAM M. Ramsay, D.C.L., LL.D., Litt.D., Professor of Humanity in the University of Aberdeen, Honorary Fellow of Exeter and Lincoln Colleges, Oxford.
Rev. HENry A. REDPATH, M.A., Rector of St. Dunstan’s in the East, London.
Rey. ARCHIBALD ROBERTSON, M.A., D.D., Prin- cipal of King’s College, London, late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
Rev. STEWART DINGWALL ForDyCcE SALMOND, M.A., D.D., F.E.1.S., Principal and Professor of Systematic Theology in the Free Church College, Aberdeen.
Rev ARCHIBALD HeENRy SayceE, M.A., LL.D., Fellow of Queen’s College, and Professor of Assyriology in the University of Oxford.
Rey. JoHN A. SELBIE, M.A., Maryculter, Kin- cardineshire,
Rev. VINCENT HENRY STANTON, M.A., D.D., Fellow of Trinity College, and Ely Professor of Divinity in the University of Cam- bridge.
JoHN F. STENNING, M.A., Fellow and Lecturer in Hebrew and Theology, Wadham College, Oxford.
W. B. Stevenson, M.A., B.D., Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Introduction in the Theological College, Bala.
Rev. ALEXANDER STEWART, M.A., D.D., Prin- cipal of St. Mary’s College, and Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of St. Andrews.
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Rev. AARON EMMANUEL SUFFRIN, M.A., Curate of Sparsholt with Kingstone Lisle, Berks. Rev. HENRY BARCLAY SWETE, M.A., D.D., Litt.D., Regius Professor of Divinity, Cam- bridge.
Rev. JoHN TAytor, M.A., Litt.D., Vicar of Winchecombe.
HENRY St. JOHN THACKERAY, M.A., Examiner in the Board of Education, formerly Divinity Lecturer in Selwyn College, Cambridge.
Rev. G. W. THATCHER, M.A., B.D., Hebrew Tutor and Lecturer on Old Testament History and Literature in Mansfield College, Oxford.
Rey. JOSEPH HENRY THAYER, M.A., D.D., Litt.D., Bussey Professor of New Testament Criticism and Τα τη σοῥαἰϊοι in the Divinity School of Harvard University.
CUTHBERT HAMILTON TURNER, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Lieut.-General Sir CHARLES WARREN, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., F.R.S., Royal Engineers.
Rev. ADAM . WELCH, M.A., B.D., Helensburgh.
The late Rey. HENRY ALCOCK WuiITE, M.A., Tutor in the U iversity of Durham, and formerly Fellow of New College, Oxford.
Rev. Newport J. D. WHITE, M.A., B.D., Librarian of Archbishop Marsh’s Library, and Assistant Lecturer in Divinity and Hebrew in the University of Dublin.
Rev. OWEN C. WHITEHOUSE, M.A., Principal and Professor of Biblical Exegesis and Theology, Cheshunt College, Herts.
Major-General Sir CHARLES WILLIAM WILSON,
ἈΞ. ΟΜ. DiC, LED; F.R.S.
Rey. FRANCIS HENRY Woops, M.A., B.D., Vicar of Chalfont St. Peter, and late Fellow and Theological Lecturer of St. John’s College, Oxford. :
Rey. Joun WorvTaBrET, M.A., M.D., Beyrovt Syria.
KIR (7).—The name of a country and nation. It occurs in the following passages :—(1) Am 97 Kir is the land from which God brought the Aramzeans (Syrians), as He led the Israelites from
Egypt, ete. It must, after this analogy, be a country remote from the principal seat (i.e. Damascus) of the Aramzeans in Amos’ time. The LXX reads ‘depth,’ ‘pit’ (βόθρος, i.e. yp). (2) 2 K 16° After the capture of Damascus, the Ara- means were carried captive to Kir by the king (Tiglath-pileser m1.) of Assyria. This would in-
dicate that Kir was under Assyrian dominion, and, |
again, at a considerable distance from the region of Damascus near the borders of the Assyrian empire, But the name of the country was wanting in the LXX originally (B), and inserted later (A, ete. Κυρηνήνδε) from the Hebrew text (after Sym- machus). Therefore this passage is suspicious ; see Field, Hexap. pp. xxii, 682. (3) Am 15 threatens indeed: the people of Aram shall go into captivity unto Kir (L ‘the one called as ally,’ ἐπίκλητος, Νὴρ ἢ. But this passage also seems to be inter- polated from Am 9’, lf Kir was the original home of the Arameans (Am 97), the Assyrians would never have deported them back to their old country, where they would have found remainders of the original stock of their nation, and would have, by union with them, become strong again and dangerous to the king of Nineveh. The Assyrians, as well as other nations, deported their captives always to countries where they were strangers, separated by language and race from the inhabit- ants of the new country, and therefore forced to rely upon the government which had settled them there. consequently, the name X7r in this passage is strange, and to be used only with caution. (4) Is 22° an attack on Jerusalem is described, evi- dently that of the Assyrian army under Senna- chen (ef. 2K 18): ‘And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men* and horsemen, and Kir (LXX συναγωγή, ef. ΠῚΡ 1) uncovered (77y) the shield’ (i.e. prepared it for fighting). Consequently, Kir was among the allies or subjects of the Assyrians, and was a warlike nation. (5) Also Is 22° seems to belong here: agby ye) 7p WTR, RV ‘a breaking down (others, surrounding) of the walls (sing. !) anc a crying to the mountains,’ LXX ἀπὸ μικροῦ ἕως μεγάλου πλανῶνται ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη, Vulg. ‘scrutans murum et magnificus super montem.’ The passage was rendered by Cheyne (following Delitzsch, Paradies, 236), ‘ Kir undermineth, and Shoa is at the mount.’ Klostermann, Bredenkamp, Cornill, Winckler (Alttest. Untersuch. 177, who conjectures, ‘who * ‘Of man’ may be a gloss, see Duhm. VOL. I1I.—1