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ASAPH, the eponym of the Asaphite gild of singers, one of the hereditary choirs that superintended the musical services of the temple at Jerusalem in post-exilic times. The names occur in the titles of certain Psalms, and the writer of the Book of Chronicles m ...

AESAPHES, in Egyptian Hartkafe, " he who is upon his lake," the ram-headed god of Heracleopolis Magna, gained an ephemeral importance during the IXth Dynasty, which arose from his town. Outwardly, be resembles Khnum. Little is known about him, and he is seldom

ASA, in the Bible, son (or, perhaps, rather brother) of Abijah. the son of Rehoboam and king of Judah (i Kings xv. 9-24). Of his long reign, during which he was a contemporary of Baasha, Zimri and Omri of Israel, little is recorded with the exception of some r

ASP ( Vipera aspis), a species of venomous snake, closely allied to the common adder of Great Britain, which it represents throughout the southern parts of Europe, being specially abundant in the region of the Alps. It differs from the adder in having the head

... ent. With the Washington 26-in. refractor, on the nth of August 1877, Professor Asaph Hall descried the moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos ; and a minute light-speck, noticed by Professor E. E. Barnard in the close neighbourhood of Jupiter on the 9th of Septembe ...

... e made over his material, about 1695, to Thomas Tanner, afterwards bishop of St Asaph. In the next year he published his only completed, though certainly not his most valuable work, the Miscellanies, a collection of stories on ghosts and dreams. He died at Oxf ...

... iety, established in 1771,— the most important being those at Corwen (1789), St Asaph (1700) and Caerwys (1708). At the close of the Napoleonic wars, however, there was a general revival of Welsh nationality, and numerous Welsh literary societies were establis ...

... ook of Extreme Unction (Mashafa Kandll), and the religious romance Barlaam et Joasaph also paraphrased from the Arabic (partly edited by A. Zotenberg in Notices et Exlraits, vol. xxviii.). The Confession of Faith of King Claudius has been repeatedly printed. T ...