'(1736-8; reprinted 1829); Stebbing, Controversy be- tween Christians and Deists (1747-49) ; Heathcote,
■ Against Atheists (1763); Worthington, Evidence of Christianity (1766-8); Owen, Ore Scripture Miracles (1769-71); Williamson, Comparison of Revelation with Operation of the Unman Mind (1778-80) ; Van Mildert, Rise and Progress of Infidelity (1802 ; reprinted 1838); Harness, Connection of Christianity with 1/ajij im ss (1821) ; Maurice, Religions of the World in their Rela- tions to Christianity (1846). — Darling, Cyclopadia Bib-
■ liographica, i, 406.
| Boys, or Bois, John, a Church of England divine, I was born at Nettlestead, Suffolk, Jan. 30, 156!'. He was so precocious that at five years old he could read the Bible in Hebrew. At fourteen he entered St. John's, Cambridge, of which college he became fellow and studied medicine. Fancying himself to have ev- er}' disease he read of, he quitted medicine for theol- ogy, and in 1583 was ordained priest, becoming some time afterward rector* of Boxworth. When the new translation of the Holy Bible was resolved on, under King James I, Bois was fixed upon to undertake the Apocrypha, which he completed, together with the por- tion assigned to some other party whose name is not known. He assisted Sir H. Savile largely in his edi- tion of Chrysostom, and in 1615 was presented by Bishop Andrewes with a stall in Ely Cathedral, which he held till his death, Jan. 11, 1643. He left many MSS., but his only published work was Veterum In- terpretatio cum Beza aliisque recent, collatio (London, 1655, 8vo), a vindication of the Vulgate version of the New Testament. — Hook, Eccles. Biography, ii, 26.
Boys, John, dean of Canterbury, was born in 1571, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, ( Jam- bridge. In 1597 hew as presented by his uncle to the j livings of Bettishanger and Tilmanstone. Archbish- op Abbot made him rector of Great Mongeham in 1619, and in 1619 James I made him dean of Canterbury. He died Sept. 26, 1625, leaving a great reputation both as preacher and scholar. He was especially noted for i his stanch Protestantism. He wrote an Exposition of i the Scriptures used in the Liturgy; An Exposition of the Epistles and Gospels in the Liturgy; An Exposition of the Psalms; Lectures and Sermons, all collected in his Works (Lond. 1629, fol.). A new edition of his Expo- ] sition of the Gospels, Festivals, and Epistles was issued | in Philadelphia (1849).— Hook, Eccl. Biography, ii, 27 ; Allione, Diet, of Authors, s. v. ; Darling, Cyclop. Bibli- ographica, i, 407.
Boyse, Joseph, a Dissenting minister, was born at Leeds, Yorkshire, 1660, and was educated at Stepney Academy. In 1663 he became pastor of a congrega- tion in Dublin, and died 1728. He wrote A Vindica- tion of the Deity of Christ (Lond. 1703, 8vo) ; A clear Account of ancient Episcopacy, which, with other writ- ings and a number of sermons, are collected in his Works (Lond. 1728, 2 vols. fol.).
Bo'zez (Heb. Botsets', "3*3, shining, according to Gesenius, but height according to Fiirst; Sept. Bwm'/c v. r. Bnfffc), the name of one of the two "sharp rocks" (Heb. "teeth of the clilt"") "between the passages" by which Jonathan entered the Philistine garrison, ap- parently a crag on the north side of the ravine between Michmash and Gibeah (1 Sam. xiv, 4, 5). Robinson noticed two hills of blunt conical form in the bottom of Wady Suweintt, just below Mukmas (Researches ii, 116, also new oil. iii, 289), which are doubtless those referred to, although Stanley could not make them out (Palest, p. 205, note").
Boz'kath (Heb. Botskath', fl^SSl, stony region or hill; Sept. in Josh. ttanticaS v. r. BaoedwS and Ma<r- XaSr; in Kings BaamSr v. r. BaffovpwSr; Josephus MofTKi-Sr, Ant. x, 4, 1), a town "in the plain" of Judah, in the vicinity of Lachish and Eglon (Josh, xv, 39): it was the native place of Adaiah, the maternal grand-
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father of King Josiah (2 Kings xxii, 1, where it is An- glicized "Boscath"). It is possibly the ruined site Tett Hessy, marked by Van de Velde (Map) at a mile and a half south-east of Ajlan (Eglou).
Boznai. See Shethak-boznai.
Boz'rah (Heb. Botsrah', •V?'43, apparently mean- ing enclosure; Sept. Boaoppa in Gen. and Chron., else- where Boaop, but ninits in Jer. xlix, 13, bxvp&fiara in Jer. xlix, 22, Tti\ta in Amos, SrXiipic in Mic.), the name apparently of more than one place east of Jordan. Others, however, contend that we should regard them as the same city ; for, in consequence of the continual wars, incursions, and conquests which were common among the small kingdoms of that region, the posses- sion of particular cities often passed into different hands (Kitto, Pict. Bible, note on Jer. xlix, 13).
1. In Edom, the city of Jobab, the son of Zerah, one of the early kings of that nation (Gen. xxxvi, 33 ; 1 Chron. i, 44). This is doubtless the place mentioned in later times by Isaiah (xxxiv, 6; lxiii, l,in connec- tion with Edom"), and by Jeremiah (xlix, 13, 22), Amos (i. 12), ami Micah (ii, 12, "sheep of Bozrah," comp. Isa. xxxiv, G; the word is here rendered by the Vul- gate "fold,"' "the sheep of the fold;" so Gesenius and Furst). It was known to Eusebius and Jerome, who speak of it in the Onomasticon (Boenop, Bosor) as a city of Esau, in the mountains of Idumsea, in connection with Isa. lxiii, 1, and in contradistinction to Bostra in Pera;a. There is no reason to doubt that the modern representative of Bozrah is el-Busseirah, which was first visited by Burckhardt (Syria, p. 407), and lies on the mountain district to the south-east of the Dead Sea, about half way between it and Petra (see also Raumer, Paldst. p. 243 ; Bitter, Erdk. xv, 127 ; xiv, 993, 101 sq. ; Schwarz, Palest, p. 209). Irby and Mangles men- tion it under the name of Ipseyra and Bsaida (eh. viii). The " goats*' which Isaiah connects with the place were found in large numbers in this neighborhood by Burckhardt (Syria., p. 405). It is described by Dr. Kobinson (Researches, ii, 570) as lying about six miles south of Tophel, and "now a village of about fifty houses, situated on a hill, on the top of which is a small castle."