UYEDA, 1aa'ytt-da. A town in the Prefecture of Nagano, Japan, situated in the central part of Hondo, 21 miles southeast of Nagano (Map: Japan, F 5). It manufactures chiefly silks. Population, in IS9S, 24,114.
UYUK, M-yMk'. A noted archeological site in Asia Minor. See ETTIK.
UZ (Deb. 'as). The home of the patriarch Job (.Job i. 1), as yet unidentified. Job is called one of the Sons of the East (ver. 3) , but this indefinite term applies to the inhabitants of the great territory lying between Syria and Meso potamia and stretching from the Euphrates into the Arabian Desert. His friend Eliphaz (q.v.) came from Tetuan, doubtless in Edom, and with this agrees the Septuagint colophon to the hook, that Uz lies on the border between Edom and Arabia. The neighborhood of Edom as the abode of wise men (cf. Onanian) makes a proper scene for the dialogue, while Uz appears in the epony mous genealogy of the Seirites, the aboriginal inhabitants of Edom (Gen. xxxvi. 20 sqq.). On the other hand Us appears as an Aramaic people, being a son of Aram (Gen. x. 23) or a nephew of Abraham (Gen. xxii. 21). This might place Us far in the north, and Delitzsch on Assyriolool
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cal evidence would locate it near Palmyra. Josephus finds Uz in the neighborhood of Damas cus (an Aramaic region), and an ancient tradi tion places Job's home in the Hauran. If the name be associated with the Aramaic tribes, it is to be borne in mind that those tribes were Mi gratory, and geographical terms connected with them most variable. Also the biblical reference may be part of the ancient tradition concerning Job, which the author simply adopted without special intention. Consult the commentaries, especially Wetzstein's note to Delitzsch.
UZ, guts, JOHANN PETER (1720-96). A Ger man poet, born at Ansbach and educated at Halle. where he became the friend of Mein; and Gritz. He was in his day prominent in the group of German anacrcontie poets. His works include Meg des Licbesgottes (1753).
iibcr die Kunst stets sent (1760), and Poctische Nehrif ten (1804). Con sult: Fenerbach, ein biographischer Fersuch (Leipzig, 1866), and Ilenneberger, Briefe eon Liz an cinen Freund aus 17534782 (Leipzig, 1866).