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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 HODY (1659-1707)  ,
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English divine, was born at Odcombe in
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Somersetshire in 1659 . In 1676 he entered Wadham College, Oxford, of which he became
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fellow in 1685 . In 1684 he published Contra historiam Aristeae de LXX. interpretibus dissertatio, in which he showed that the so-called letter of
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Aristeas, containing an account of the production of the Septuagint, was the
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late forgery of a Hellenist Jew originally circuiated 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
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year he became
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chaplain to
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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 Tillotson, an office which he continued to hold under 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
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History of English
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Councils and Convocations, and in 1703 in four volumes De Bibliorum textis originalibus, in which he included a revision of his
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work on the Septuagint, and published a reply to Vossius . He died on the loth of
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January 1707 . A work, De Graecis Illustribus, which he
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left in
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manuscript, was published in 1742 by
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Samuel Jebb, who prefixed to it a Latin
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life of the author .

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