Fenton John Anthony Hort

He had his school education in 1841 at Rugby School and moved in 1846 to Trinity College, Cambridge. He was friends with Edward White Benson and Joseph Barber Lightfoot and Brooke Foss Westcott with. In 1852 he was elected member of the College and remained until 1857. A friendship also connected him with FD Maurice, whom he publicly defended, as in 1853 lost his professorship at King's Colleg. In 1854 he became a deacon, consecrated in the Cathedral of Ely in 1856 as a priest. The three men Hort, Westcott and Lightfoot were referred to as " Cambridge triumvirate ". John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor Along with he published the Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology.

In 1857 he married and was for fifteen years a curate in St. Ippolyts in Hertfordshire. Hort did not get along with the profession as a parish priest, in particular write sermons and hold for him was very difficult as a perfectionist and introverted scholar. In 1863 he had a nervous breakdown and was not acting as a minister 1863-1865. During this time he stayed over the winter in Cheltenham and in the summer in the Alps. In Sommter 1860 Hort, Westcott and Lightfoot Made a plan to a historical-critical commentary on the whole New Testament. Hort verfertigte to only three smaller parts, which were published posthumously. In 1870 he was appointed to the Committee for the Revision of the New Testament of the King James Bible to publish the Revised Version.

From 1871, he held the Hulsean Lectures at Cambridge University, in 1872 he became a member and lecturer of Emmanuel College and moved to Cambridge, in 1878 he was Hulsean Professor of Divinity, and then from 1887 Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity until his death. He preached the sermon at the consecration Westcott as Bishop of Durham. This sermon strained him so that his health suffered from, and he spent the last two years as a semi-invalid. His last lecture was in April 1892, his lezter article was about Lightfoot in the Dictionary of National Biography.

He was an important representative of the neutestamentalen textual criticism in the 19th century. Brooke Foss Westcott and Hort gave in 1881 together The New Testament in the Original Greek out a Greek text output, which is known as " Westcott and Hort " and was the basis for many Bible translations and revisions. She was treading new ground methodologically and revolutionized the design of the New Testament text text output. The introductory volume of Hort appeared in 1896 Following his method, the textual criticism involves four steps: 1., The search for the inner witness (internal evidence of readings ). This checks the internal probability and Abschreibevorgang ( intrinsic to transsriptional probability ). 2 cons Arguing both be borne in mind, the overall character rivalsierender documents (internal evidence of documents ). 3 Continue below you have to groups of common manuscripts. Common readings mean common origin (internal evidence of groups of manuscripts ). 4 The existing Mischlesarten lead to the need for a genealogy consideration ( genealogical evidence). The mixture means that you have to consider the isolated individual readings more or less.

Hort was not a partisan of any of the ecclesiastical party, but had their own opinion, which he aneckte everywhere. His exaggerated perfectionism prevented him brought his work to an end and published. He was not a specialist, he was not only an outstanding New Testament scholar and textual critic, but also an important church historian, philosopher, and theologian who deeply immersed in the issues of his time.

Works

Dictionary of Christian Biography For he contributed 70 articles, mainly on the subject of early Gnosticism. All other works Hort were published posthumously in London.