CONTENTS. PAGES On the terms 'Excellent' and 'Excellency' in A.V., R.V., and P.B.V. of the Psalms...(I.).. 32 The Inscription recording the vote of thanks to Eumenes P.B.V. : Version of the Book of Common Bayer Principal Abbreviations employed. KAT....Eb. Schrader, Die Keilinschriften und das A. T., ed. 2, 1883 (translated under the title The Cuneiform Inscriptions and the O.T. 1885, 1888). The references are to the pagination of the original, which is given on the margin of the English translation. (KAT.3, 1902, by Zimmern and Winckler, is a new work altogether.) KB....Eb. Schrader, Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek (transliterations and translations of Assyrian and Babylonian inscriptions), 1889-1900. L.O.T....S. R. Driver, Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament, ed. 6, 1897 (ed. 8, revised, 1909). NHWB....M. Levy, Neuhebräisches und Chaldäisches Wörterbuch, 1876-89. OTJC.2...W. Robertson Smith, The Old Testament in the Jewish Church, ed. 2, 1892. P.S. (or Payne Smith)... R. Payne Smith, Thesaurus Syriacus. RP or RP.2...Records of the Past, first and second series, respectively. Schürer... E. Schürer, Gesch. des Jüdischen Volkes im Zeitalter Jesu Christi, ed. 2, 1886, 1890 (translated, Edinb. 1890—3); Vol. 2, also, in ed. 3 (2 vols.), 1898. Ed. 4, considerably enlarged (1901– 1909), in three volumes, has not at present (May 1911) been translated into English. ZATW....Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 1881 ff. For the names of Commentators, &c., see pp. cii-civ. It has been found difficult to preserve entire consistency in the transliteration of foreign words, especially Babylonian and Assyrian names; but it is hoped that the reader will not be seriously misled in consequence. Familiar names have usually been left unchanged. In other words (or sometimes ch) =n; k=P; s (or 3)=Y; t=D. B.C. 605. 604. 586. 561. 559. Defeat of Egyptians by Nebuchadnezzar at Carchemish. Fall of Jerusalem. AMEL-MARDUK (Evil-Merodach). 555 (9 months). LABASHI-MARDUK (Laborisoarchod). 555. 538. NABU-NA'ID (Nabonnēdus, Nabonidus). CYRUS. Return of Jews under Zerubbabel. 529-522. CAMBYSES. 522 (7 months). GAUMÂTA (Pseudo-Smerdis). 522-485. DARIUS HYSTASPIS. 485-465. XERXES. Persian empire overthrown by ALEXANDER The Great. 333. 323. Death of Alexander. 249. ANTIOCHUS II receives in marriage Berenice, daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus. 246. SELEUCUS II (Callinicus). 226. SELEUCUS III (Ceraunos). PTOLEMY IV (Philopator). 223. ANTIOCHUS III (the Great). 222. 205. 198. Antiochus the Great defeats Ptolemy Epiphanes at Paneion, and obtains possession of Palestine. 194-3. Antiochus the Great marries his daughter, Cleopatra, to Ptolemy Epiphanes. 187. SELEUCUS IV (Philopator). 182. PTOLEMY VI (Eupator). 175-164. ANTIOCHUS IV (Epi- 182-146. PTOLEMY VII (Philo 175. 172. 170. 168. 168. 168. 167. 166-5. 165. 164. Jason purchases the high-priesthood from Antiochus, expelling his brother Onias III. Menelaus, outbidding Jason, becomes high-priest. Antiochus' first expedition into Egypt. On his return he Antiochus' third (or second?) expedition into Egypt. Antiochus' measures against the Jews. Desecration of the |