C. J. Ball

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,^[2][3] and for the Speaker's Commentary,^[2] and contributed the volumes on 2 Kings^[4] and 1 and 2 Chronicles in Charles Ellicott's commentary series.^[5] Ball was also considered a "recognised authorit[y] in Assyriology",^[1] with published notes on the Nin-Mag' Inscription and Inscriptions of Nebuchadrezzar the Great.^[6]

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.^[2]

Ball also translated volume one (Genesis) of Hermann Hugo Paul Haupt's Polychrome Bible.