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Research Center Directory

Researchers and Historical Biographies

A directory of modern and historical people relevant to the project, with identity, field, dates, and links to their work.

Alexander Souter

Alexander Souter was a Scottish scholar of the New Testament and Latin fathers.

Barbara Aland

Barbara Aland was a German church historian and textual critic who succeeded Kurt Aland as director of the Institute for New Testament Textual Research.

Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardic Jewish background whose Theological-Political Treatise became a landmark of rationalist biblical criticism.

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield was a Presbyterian minister and theologian who taught at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Benjamin Kennicott

Benjamin Kennicott was an Oxford Hebraist who organized a large international project to collate Hebrew manuscripts and early editions of the Old Testament.

Bernhard Weiss

Bernhard Weiss was a German Lutheran New Testament scholar, commentator, introduction writer, and editor of a critical Greek text.

Brooke Foss Westcott

Brooke Foss Westcott was an Anglican scholar, bishop, member of the New Testament Revision Company, and co-editor with Fenton John Anthony Hort of The New Testament in the Original Greek.

Bruce Manning Metzger was an American Presbyterian minister and Princeton scholar whose textbooks, critical-edition work, and translation leadership made him one of the most influential Anglophone textual critics of the twentieth century.

Carlo Maria Martini

Carlo Maria Martini was an Italian Jesuit biblical scholar who became Archbishop of Milan and a cardinal.

Caspar René Gregory

Caspar René Gregory was an American-born scholar who spent his career in Germany and made enduring contributions to the cataloguing and description of New Testament manuscripts.

Constantin von Tischendorf

Constantin von Tischendorf was a German scholar, traveller, manuscript editor, and prolific editor of the Greek New Testament.

Daniel B. Wallace

Daniel B.

David C. Parker

David C.

David Trobisch

David Trobisch is a German biblical scholar known for studying manuscript paratext, the Pauline letter collection, and the publication history of the New Testament.

Desiderius Erasmus

Jan Hus was a Bohemian priest, preacher at Bethlehem Chapel, university master, and leading voice for reform in Prague.

Dirk Jongkind

Dirk Jongkind is a Dutch scholar of New Testament manuscripts and textual criticism based at Tyndale House in Cambridge.

Eberhard Nestle

Eberhard Nestle was a German orientalist and biblical scholar whose 1898 Novum Testamentum Graece compared the editions of Tischendorf, Westcott-Hort, and initially Richard Francis Weymouth, later substituting Bernhard Weiss.

Edward F. Hills

Edward Freer Hills was an American Presbyterian scholar trained at Yale, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Harvard.

Edward Leigh

Edward Leigh was an English scholar, parliamentarian, and prolific compiler whose works ranged across theology, history, ethics, and the biblical languages.

Edward Miller

Edward Miller was an Anglican clergyman, textual scholar, and literary executor who brought important portions of John William Burgon's unfinished research into print.

Eldon Jay Epp

Eldon Jay Epp was an American New Testament textual critic whose work on Codex Bezae, textual clusters, race, and the concept of the original text broadened the discipline beyond selecting individual readings.

Elijah Hixson

Elijah Hixson is an American scholar of New Testament manuscripts, scribal habits, papyrology, and early Christian theology.

Emanuel Tov

Emanuel Tov is a Dutch-born Israeli scholar of the Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, and Dead Sea Scrolls.

Ernest Cadman Colwell

Ernest Cadman Colwell was an American New Testament scholar and educational administrator whose essays on scribal habits, manuscript groups, quantitative method, and text-types influenced later criticism.

Erwin Nestle

Erwin Nestle continued his father Eberhard's Novum Testamentum Graece and assumed editorial responsibility across many editions.

Eugene A. Nida

Eugene Albert Nida was an American linguist and Bible-society leader whose theory of dynamic, later functional, equivalence transformed twentieth-century translation practice.

Eugene Ulrich

Eugene Ulrich is an American Roman Catholic scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the textual history of the Hebrew Bible.

Fenton John Anthony Hort

Fenton John Anthony Hort was a Cambridge scholar, Anglican priest, member of the New Testament Revision Company, and Westcott's principal collaborator on the 1881 Greek text.

Francis Turretin

Francis Turretin was a Genevan pastor, professor, and leading representative of high Reformed orthodoxy.

Franciscus Junius

Franciscus Junius the Elder was a French-born Reformed theologian, linguist, translator, and professor.

Frederic G. Kenyon

Frederic George Kenyon was a British palaeographer, papyrologist, biblical manuscript scholar, and director of the British Museum.

Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

Garnet Howard Milne

Garnet Howard Milne is a contemporary author whose Has the Bible Been Kept Pure?

George Vance Smith

George Vance Smith was a Unitarian minister and scholar appointed to the English New Testament Revision Company.

Gerd Mink

Gerd Mink is a German New Testament textual critic associated with the Institute for New Testament Textual Research in Münster.

Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi

Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi was an Italian Hebraist and bibliographer whose collections and collations enlarged knowledge of Hebrew manuscripts and rare printed editions.

Gordon D. Fee

Gordon Fee was a Pentecostal New Testament scholar known for textual studies, Pauline and Johannine exegesis, and widely used works on interpretation.

Günther Zuntz

Günther Zuntz was a German-born classical scholar and papyrologist who worked in Britain after leaving Nazi Germany.

Heinrich Bullinger

Heinrich Bullinger succeeded Zwingli as chief pastor in Zürich and became one of the most widely connected leaders of the Reformed churches.

Henry Alford

Henry Alford was an Anglican clergyman, dean of Canterbury, hymn writer, and author of a widely used Greek Testament commentary.

Herman Charles Hoskier

Herman Charles Hoskier was a textual scholar known for exact collations of New Testament manuscripts, especially in Revelation, and for sustained criticism of Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, and the Westcott-Hort system.

Hermann von Soden

Hermann von Soden was a German theologian whose vast Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments attempted a comprehensive classification of New Testament manuscripts, textual recensions, and readings.

Holger Strutwolf

Holger Strutwolf is a German Protestant theologian specializing in patristics and New Testament textual criticism.

Hugh A. G. Houghton

Hugh A.

Huldrych Zwingli

Huldrych Zwingli was the leading early reformer of Zürich.

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton is best known for mathematics and natural philosophy, but he also devoted enormous private labour to biblical chronology, prophecy, church history, and the textual history of Trinitarian passages.