Journal of Confessional Bibliology — Scripture Alone, Preserved by Providence

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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.

Jakob van Bruggen

Jakob van Bruggen was a Dutch Reformed New Testament scholar, professor at the Theological University in Kampen, commentator, and author on canon, exegesis, and textual questions.

James Ussher

James Ussher was an Irish churchman, scholar, Archbishop of Armagh, and one of the most learned figures of the British Reformed world.

Jan Hus

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

Jan Krans

Jan Krans is a Dutch textual critic known for research on the editorial practices of Erasmus, Stephanus, Beza, and the history of the Textus Receptus.

Johann Albrecht Bengel

Johann Albrecht Bengel was a Lutheran Pietist scholar, pastor, commentator, and Greek New Testament editor.

Johann David Michaelis

Johann David Michaelis was a Göttingen orientalist and biblical scholar whose Introduction to the New Testament became a major vehicle for historical-critical questions in German and English scholarship.

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn was a German orientalist and biblical critic whose introductions helped establish historical-critical study of the Old Testament and later the New Testament.

Johann Jakob Griesbach

Johann Jakob Griesbach was a German New Testament scholar whose editions and critical canons gave durable form to the recension or text-family approach.

Johann Jakob Wettstein

Johann Jakob Wettstein was a Swiss-born scholar and manuscript collator whose Amsterdam Greek New Testament offered an extensive apparatus and abundant parallels from classical, Jewish, and patristic literature.

Johann Salomo Semler

Johann Salomo Semler was a German theologian often associated with the rise of historical criticism and a historically differentiated canon.

Johannes Buxtorf the Younger

Johannes Buxtorf the Younger succeeded his father in Hebrew at Basel, edited and expanded parts of the Buxtorf scholarly legacy, and became a principal defender of the traditional view of Hebrew vowel points.

John Calvin

John Calvin was a French humanist-trained jurist, Reformed theologian, pastor, commentator, and organizer of the Genevan church.

John Cosin

John Cosin was an English churchman, liturgical scholar, royalist exile, and later Bishop of Durham.

John Gill

John Gill was a Particular Baptist pastor in London, Hebrew scholar, commentator, and systematic theologian.

John Lightfoot

John Lightfoot was an English clergyman, Westminster Assembly member, Hebraist, commentator, and Cambridge college head.

John Mill

John Mill was an Oxford scholar and Anglican clergyman whose 1707 Greek New Testament gathered variant evidence accumulated over decades.

John Owen

John Owen was the foremost English Reformed Congregational theologian of the seventeenth century.

John Rogers

John Rogers worked with William Tyndale in Antwerp and edited the 1537 Matthew Bible under the name Thomas Matthew.

John William Burgon

John William Burgon was an Anglican clergyman, Oxford scholar, Dean of Chichester, and the most famous nineteenth-century critic of the Revised Version and the Westcott-Hort Greek text.

John Wycliffe

John Wycliffe was an Oxford-trained English theologian whose disputes over ecclesiastical property, papal power, preaching, and the authority of Scripture helped form the late-medieval reform movement later called Lollardy.

Julius Wellhausen

Julius Wellhausen was a German biblical scholar and orientalist whose Prolegomena to the History of Israel gave classic form to the documentary hypothesis and a developmental account of Israelite religion.

Karl Lachmann

Karl Lachmann was a classical and German philologist whose New Testament editions became symbolic of a deliberate break with the Textus Receptus.

Kirsopp Lake

Kirsopp Lake was a British-American New Testament scholar who worked on manuscripts, photographed important codices, studied the Caesarean text hypothesis, and co-edited major historical projects on Acts and early Christianity.

Klaus Wachtel

Klaus Wachtel is a German classical philologist and New Testament textual critic who worked at the Münster institute from 1990.

Kurt Aland

Kurt Aland was a German church historian and New Testament textual critic whose institutional work decisively shaped the modern printed Greek New Testament.

Louis Gaussen

Louis Gaussen was a Genevan Reformed pastor, teacher, and leader in the nineteenth-century Réveil.

Mark Ward

Mark Ward is an American author and public teacher known chiefly for arguments about changes in English, the contemporary intelligibility of the Authorized Version, Bible software, and the use of multiple modern translations.

Martin Luther

Martin Luther was an Augustinian friar, Wittenberg professor, preacher, polemicist, and translator whose controversy over indulgences developed into a broad evangelical reform.

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole was an English Presbyterian minister and commentator best known for the Latin Synopsis Criticorum and the English Annotations upon the Holy Bible.

Miles Coverdale

Miles Coverdale produced the first complete printed English Bible in 1535 and later supervised the Great Bible.

Paul Kahle

Paul Kahle was a German orientalist and biblical scholar known for work on the Cairo Geniza, Hebrew vocalization, Masoretic traditions, and the textual history behind Biblia Hebraica.

Philip Melanchthon

Philip Melanchthon was a Greek scholar, Wittenberg professor, educational reformer, and Luther's most important academic colleague.

Richard Bentley

Richard Bentley was an English classical scholar and textual emender.

Richard Simon

Richard Simon was a French Oratorian priest whose critical histories of the Old Testament, New Testament text, versions, and commentators helped establish biblical criticism as a distinct early-modern enterprise.

Robert Estienne

Robert Estienne, commonly called Stephanus in Latin, was a Parisian printer-scholar and later Genevan Protestant.

Robert Lewis Dabney

Robert Lewis Dabney was a Presbyterian pastor, Confederate chaplain and staff officer, professor at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia and later at the University of Texas, and a wide-ranging theologian and polemicist.

Rudolf Kittel

Rudolf Kittel was a German Old Testament scholar and the founding editor of Biblia Hebraica.

Samuel Clarke

Samuel Clarke was an English clergyman, philosopher, and controversial theologian whose Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity arranged biblical propositions in support of a subordinationist account.

Samuel Prideaux Tregelles

Samuel Prideaux Tregelles was an English biblical scholar and manuscript collator who produced a critically edited Greek New Testament after extensive travel and direct work with witnesses.

Theodore Beza

Theodore Beza was a French classical scholar, Reformed theologian, Genevan pastor, academy leader, and editor of the Greek New Testament.

Tommy Wasserman

Tommy Wasserman is a Swedish New Testament scholar specializing in textual criticism, manuscripts, Jude, and the CBGM.