HISTORICAL BIBLES. See Bibles, Historical.

HITCHCOCK, ROSWELL DWIGHT: Presbyte rian; b. at East Machias, Me., Aug. 15, 1817; d. at Fall River, Mass., June 16, 1887. He was ed ucated at Amherst (B.A., 1836), and after teaching for two years (1836-38) and studying in Andover Theological Seminary for a year (1838-39), was a tutor in Amherst College from 1839 to 1842. In 1844-45 he was in charge of a church at Water ville, Me., and from the latter year until 1852 was pastor of the First Congregational Church at Exeter, N. H., studying theology at Halle and Berlin in 1847-48. He was then professor of natural and revealed religion in Bowdoin College from 1852 to 1855, when he was appointed professor of church history in Union Theological Seminary. This po sition he held after 1880 after his election to the presidency of the same institution. In addition to editing The American Theological Review from 1863 to 1870; Hymns and Songs of Praise (in collaboration with Z. Eddy and P. Schaff, New York, 1874); The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (in collaboration with F. Brown, 1884); and Carmina Sanc torum (in collaboration with Z. Eddy and L. W. Mudge, 1885), he wrote Life of Edward Robinson (New York, 1863); Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible (1869 which supersedes West's work on the subject); Socialism (1879) ; and the pos- thumous Eternal Atonement (a collection of sermons, 1888).

HITTITES, THE

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Egyptian Accounts (§ 1).

Assyrian Notices (§ 2).

Biblical Mention (§ 3).

Hittite Monuments (§ 4).

Attempted Decipherment of Inscriptions (§ 5).

The People (§ 6).

Their "Empire" ; Influence on Culture (§ 7).

The Hittites (Hebr. Ha-$itti, ,Hittim, Septuagint Chettaioi, Egyptian ,Rata, Assyr. ,Hatti, Vate) were a people of disputed ethnological affiliations whose traces have been found over the territory lying between the western boundary of Assyria and the tEgean coast of Asia Minor, and between the Black Sea and the Egyptian border. Present interest centers in two points, historic and apologetic. The decipherment of Egyptian and Assyrian inscriptions and documents and the discovery of a considerable number of monuments and inscriptions, no doubt correctly attributed to this people, have led to the knowledge of an "empire" or an aggregation of kingdoms to which the name Hittite is assigned. The apologetic interest is due to the fact that at one time a few critics were disposed rashly to question the existence of such a people as was indicated in the Biblical texts.