- Humphrey Hody
Humphrey Hody (
1659 -January 20 ,1707 ) was an Englishmonk and theologian.He was born at
Odcombe inSomerset in 1659. In 1676 he enteredWadham College, Oxford , of which he became a fellow in 1685.In 1684 he published "Contra historiam Aristeae de LXX. interpretibus dissertatio", in which he argued that the so-called "letter of
Aristeas ", containing an account of the production of theSeptuagint , was the late forgery of a HellenicJew originally circulated to lend authority to that version. The dissertation was generally regarded as conclusive, althoughIsaac Vossius published an angry and scurrilous reply to it in the appendix to his edition of "Pomponius Mela ".In 1689 Hody wrote the "Prolegomena to the Greek chronicle of
John Malalas ", published at Oxford in 1691. The following year he became chaplain toEdward Stillingfleet ,bishop of Worcester , and for his support of the ruling party in a controversy withHenry Dodwell regarding the non-juring bishops he was appointed chaplain to ArchbishopJohn Tillotson , an office which he continued to hold underThomas Tenison .In 1698 he was appointed regius professor of Greek at Oxford, and in 1704 was made
archdeacon of Oxford. In 1701 he published "A History of English Councils and Convocations", and in 1703 in four volumes "De Bibliorum textis originalibus", in which he included a revision of his work on the Septuagint, and published a reply to Vossius.A work, "De Graecis Illustribus", which he left in manuscript, was published in 1742 by Samuel Jebb, who prefixed to it a Latin life of the author.
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