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ISAAC HOLLISTER HALL (1837-1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 847 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ISAAC HOLLISTER See also:HALL (1837-1896)  , See also:American Orientalist, was See also:born in See also:Norwalk, See also:Connecticut, on the 12th of See also:December 1837 . He graduated at See also:Hamilton See also:College in 1859, was .a See also:tutor there in 1859-1863, graduated at the See also:Columbia See also:Law School in 1865, practised law in New See also:York See also:City until 1875, and in 1875—1877 taught in the Syrian See also:Protestant College at See also:Beirut, where he discovered a valuable See also:Syriac See also:manuscript of the Philoxenian version of a large See also:part of the New Testament, which he published in part in facsimile in 1884 . He worked with See also:General di See also:Cesnola in classifying the famous Cypriote collection in the See also:Metropolitan Museum of New York City, and was a See also:curator of that museum from 1885 until his See also:death in See also:Mount See also:Vernon, New York, on the 2nd of See also:July 1896 . He was an eminent authority on See also:Oriental See also:inscriptions . Following the scanty clues given by See also:George See also:Smith and See also:Samuel See also:Birch, and working on the data furnished by the di Cesnola collection, he succeeded about 1874 in deciphering an entire Cypriote inscription, and in establishing the Hellenic See also:character of the See also:dialect and the syllabic nature of the script . His See also:work in Cypriote See also:epigraphy is described in his articles in Scribner's See also:Magazine, vol . 20 (See also:June, 188o), pp . 205-211 and in the See also:Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol . 10, No . 2 (188o), pp . 201-218 . He published in facsimile the See also:Antilegomena epistles (1886), which he deciphered from the W .

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Williams manuscript, and edited A See also:Critical Bibliography of the See also:Greek New Testament as Published in See also:America (1884) .

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