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Humphrey Hody (
1659 -
January 20,
1707) was an
English monk and
theologian.
He was born at
Odcombe in
Somerset in
1659. In
1676 he entered
Wadham 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 the
Septuagint, was the late forgery of a
Hellenic Jew originally circulated to lend authority to that version. The dissertation was generally regarded as conclusive, although
Isaac 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 to
Edward Stillingfleet,
bishop of Worcester, and for his support of the ruling party in a controversy with
Henry Dodwell regarding the non-juring bishops he was appointed chaplain to Archbishop
John Tillotson, an office which he continued to hold under
Thomas 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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