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HUMPHREY HODY (1659-1707)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 559 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUMPHREY See also:HODY (1659-1707)  , See also:English divine, was See also:born at Odcombe in See also:Somersetshire in 1659 . In 1676 he entered Wadham See also:College, See also:Oxford, of which he became See also:fellow in 1685 . In 1684 he published Contra historiam Aristeae de LXX. interpretibus dissertatio, in which he showed that the so-called See also:letter of See also:Aristeas, containing an See also:account of the See also:production of the See also:Septuagint, was the See also:late See also:forgery of a Hellenist See also:Jew originally circuiated to lend authority to that version . The dissertation was generally regarded as conclusive, although See also:Isaac See also:Vossius published an angry and scurrilous reply to it in the appendix to his edition of See also:Pomponius See also:Mela . In 1689 See also:Hody wrote the Prolegomena to the See also:Greek See also:chronicle of See also:John See also:Malalas, published at Oxford in 1691 . The following See also:year he became See also:chaplain to See also:Edward See also:Stillingfleet, See also:bishop of See also:Worcester, and for his support of the ruling party in a controversy with See also:Henry See also:Dodwell regarding the non-juring bishops he was appointed chaplain to See also:Archbishop See also:Tillotson, an See also:office which he continued to hold under See also:Tenison . In 1698 he was appointed regius See also:professor of Greek at Oxford, and in 1704 was made See also:archdeacon of Oxford . In 1701 he published A See also:History of English See also:Councils and Convocations, and in 1703 in four volumes De Bibliorum textis originalibus, in which he included a revision of his See also:work on the Septuagint, and published a reply to Vossius . He died on the loth of See also:January 1707 . A work, De Graecis Illustribus, which he See also:left in See also:manuscript, was published in 1742 by See also:Samuel See also:Jebb, who prefixed to it a Latin See also:life of the author .

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