Herman Charles Hoskier (1864–1938), was a biblical scholar, British

textual critic Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in da ...

, and son of a merchant banker,

Herman Hoskier Herman Hoskier (1832–1904), British banker, lived at Hayes, Kent, England. He was a director of the Union Bank of London and of Brown, Shipley & Co. He had a daughter Coralie Mary Hoskier and son Herman Charles Hoskier. During the American C ...

(1832–1904). Hoskier, as textual critic, generally but not entirely supported the

Byzantine text-type In the textual criticism of the New Testament, the Byzantine text-type (also called Majority Text, Traditional Text, Ecclesiastical Text, Constantinopolitan Text, Antiocheian Text, or Syrian Text) is one of the main text types. It is the form fou ...

against the

Alexandrian text-type In textual criticism of the New Testament, the Alexandrian text-type is one of the main text types. It is the text type favored by the majority of modern textual critics and it is the basis for most modern (after 1900) Bible translations. Over 5,8 ...

. He compared, in ''Codex B and It Allies'', the text of

Codex Vaticanus The Codex Vaticanus ( The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Vat. gr. 1209), designated by siglum B or 03 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 1 ( von Soden), is a fourth-century Christian manuscript of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old ...

with

Codex Sinaiticus The Codex Sinaiticus (Shelfmark: London, British Library, Add MS 43725), designated by siglum [Aleph] or 01 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 2 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts) ...

, and showed how many significant disagreements the best witnesses of the Alexandrian text have. Hoskier attempted to demonstrate that Vaticanus presents a text which has been conformed to the Coptic versions. Hoskier also compared the text of

Minuscule 700 Minuscule 700 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), ε 133 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a Greek New Testament minuscule manuscript of the Gospels, written on parchment. It was formerly l ...

with the

Textus Receptus ''Textus Receptus'' (Latin: "received text") refers to all printed editions of the Greek New Testament from Erasmus's ''Novum Instrumentum omne'' (1516) to the 1633 Elzevir edition. It was the most commonly used text type for Protestant denomi ...

, where he noted 2724 differences between the two. Hoskier collated every known Greek manuscript of the

Apocalypse Apocalypse () is a literary genre in which a supernatural being reveals cosmic mysteries or the future to a human intermediary. The means of mediation include dreams, visions and heavenly journeys, and they typically feature symbolic imager ...

up to 1918. This took 30 years. The result of this work was published in 1929 (''Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse''). Hoskier shows parallels between

Papyrus 46 Papyrus 46 (''P. Chester Beatty II''), designated by siglum (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is an early Greek New Testament manuscript written on papyrus, and is one of the manuscripts comprising the Chester Beatty Papyri. Manuscripts among ...

and the Ethiopic Version in the

Pauline epistles The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute. Among these epistles are some of the earliest extan ...

.Appendix to an Article on the Chester-Beatty Papyrus of the Pauline epistels
.

Works

*
''Concerning the Genesis of the Versions of the New Testament''
(1910) (2 vols.) * ''The golden Latin Gospels in the library of J. Pierpont Morgan'' (1910).
''Concerning the date of the Bohairic Version''
(1911)
''Collation of Codex 157 (ROME. VAT. URB. 2)''
JTS (1913)
''The Lost Commentary of Oecumenius on the Apocalypse''
(1913)
''Codex B and Its Allies, a study and an indictment''

Bernard Quaritch Bernard Alexander Christian Quaritch ( ; April 23, 1819 – December 17, 1899) was a German-born British bookseller and collector. The company established by Bernard Quaritch in 1847 lives on in London as Bernard Quaritch Ltd, dealing in rare ...

(London 1914).
Volume 1

Volume 2

''The text of Codex Usserianus 2., or2 (microform) ("Garland of Howth") with critical notes to supplement and correct the collation of the late T. K. Abbott''

(London 1919) * ''Immortality'' (The Daniel Company, 1925).
''The Complete Commentary of Oecumenius on the Apocalypse''
1928. *
vol. I
* ''The Bronze Horses'' (The Mosher press, 1930). * ''What is Nirvana?'' (The Mosher press, 1930). * ''In Tune with the Universe'' (London: Rider & Co.,1932). * ''The back of beyond'' (The Daniel Company, 1934).
''A commentary on the various readings in the text of the epistle to the Hebrews in the Chester-Beatty Papyrus P46 (circa 200 A.D.)''
Bernard Quaritch, (London 1938)

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''Codex B and Its Allies'' (Part I)

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoskier, Herman C. 1864 births 1938 deaths British theologians British biblical scholars New Testament scholars

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