Herman Charles Hoskier was a biblical scholar, British textual critic

Textual criticism

Textual criticism is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts...

, and son of a merchant banker, Herman Hoskier

Herman Hoskier

Herman Hoskier , 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....

 (1832–1904).

Hoskier, as textual critic, supported the Byzantine text-type

Byzantine text-type

The Byzantine text-type is one of several text-types used in textual criticism to describe the textual character of Greek New Testament manuscripts. It is the form found in the largest number of surviving manuscripts, though not in the oldest...

 against the Alexandrian text-type

Alexandrian text-type

The Alexandrian text-type , associated with Alexandria, is one of several text-types used in New Testament textual criticism to describe and group the textual character of biblical manuscripts...

. He compared, in Codex B and It Allies, the text of Codex Vaticanus with Codex Sinaiticus

Codex Sinaiticus

Codex Sinaiticus is one of the four great uncial codices, an ancient, handwritten copy of the Greek Bible. It is an Alexandrian text-type manuscript written in the 4th century in uncial letters on parchment. Current scholarship considers the Codex Sinaiticus to be one of the best Greek texts of...

, and shown 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

Coptic versions of the Bible

There have been many Coptic versions of the Bible, including some of the earliest translations into any language. Several different versions were made in the ancient world, with different editions of the Old and New Testament in all four of the major dialects of Coptic: Bohairic , Fayyumic, Sahidic...

. Hoskier compared text of the Minuscule 700

Minuscule 700

Minuscule 700 , ε 133 , is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the Gospels. Formerly it was labelled as 604 in all catalogues , Gregory gave it the number 700....

 with the Textus Receptus

Textus Receptus

Textus Receptus is the name subsequently given to the succession of printed Greek texts of the New Testament which constituted the translation base for the original German Luther Bible, the translation of the New Testament into English by William Tyndale, the King James Version, and for most other...

 and exhibits 2724 differences.

Hoskier collated every known Greek manuscript of the Apocalypse

Book of Revelation

The Book of Revelation is the final book of the New Testament. The title came into usage from the first word of the book in Koine Greek: apokalupsis, meaning "unveiling" or "revelation"...

 up to 1918. It took 30 years for him. Result of this work was published in 1929 (Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse). Hoskier shows parallels between Papyrus 46 and the Ethiopic Version in the Pauline epistles

Pauline epistles

The Pauline epistles, Epistles of Paul, or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen New Testament books which have the name Paul as the first word, hence claiming authorship by Paul the Apostle. Among these letters are some of the earliest extant Christian documents...

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Works

• A Full Account and Collation of the Greek Cursive Codex Evangelium 604, London, 1890. (with two facsimiles)
• 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)
• Codex B and Its Allies, a study and an indictment, Bernard Quaritch
  Bernard Quaritch
  Bernard Quaritch, full name Bernard Alexander Christian Quaritch, was a German-born British bookseller and collector....
  
   (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, Bernard Quaritch
  Bernard Quaritch
  Bernard Quaritch, full name Bernard Alexander Christian Quaritch, was a German-born British bookseller and collector....
  
  (London 1919)
• Immortality (The Daniel Company, 1925).
• The Complete Commentary of Oecumenius on the Apocalypse. 1928.
• Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse: Collation of All Existing Available Greek Documents with the Standard Text of Stephen’s Third Edition Together with the Testimony of Versions, Commentaries and Fathers. 2 vols. (London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1929).
• The Bronze Horses (The Mosher press, 1930).
• What is Nirvana? (The Mosher press, 1930).
• In Tune with the Universe.
• 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)

External links

• Codex B and Its Allies (Part I)
• Codex B and Its Allies (Part II)
• Books of Hoskier at the Internet Archive