Hugh A.
Setting: British university textual scholarship.
Hugh A. G. Houghton is a British scholar of New Testament textual criticism, especially the Old Latin and Latin Vulgate traditions, and a leader in digital textual editing at the University of Birmingham. His projects have produced transcriptions, databases, and studies of versional evidence used in critical editions.
Houghton belongs in the modern stream because versional evidence and digital infrastructure increasingly shape which data editors can see and how textual relationships are represented.
Bibliological positions
The history and earliest recoverable forms of the New Testament text require critical analysis of Greek and versional witnesses supported by transparent digital editions and datasets.
Qualifications and disputes
Open transcriptions and versional expertise materially improve access to evidence. Method critique should distinguish data publication from conclusions drawn from data.
Debate concerns the reconstruction of Old Latin forms, the use of versions in Greek textual criticism, and the authority of digital editorial models.
Sources
- University of Birmingham — Hugh Houghton — Official profile and publications
- ITSEE — projects — Official digital-edition project context
Principal works
- The Latin New Testament: A Guide to Its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts (2016); legacy
WRK-0224; WRK; Ready after permanent-ID allocation and duplicate scan
Historical person network
People, doctrines, texts, and reported interactions
Relationship labels distinguish contact, refutation, later reporting, accusation, textual agreement, compatibility, and causation. A connection does not silently inherit the force of another connection.
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- Record
- PER-3038
- Status
- Preliminary
- Version
- 1.1-profile
- Review
- Level B — Editorial synthesis
- Editor
- Chris Thomas
- Reviewer
- Independent reviewer pending assignment
- First date
- 2026-07-22 · Exact Day
- Last revised
- 2026-07-22
Evidence and editorial controls
- Verification
- Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific.
- Rights and access
- Original editorial synthesis; cited sources retain their stated rights.
- Known limitations
- Sourced orientation record. Education, dated offices, languages, confessional subscription, verified quotations, and independent review may remain incomplete.
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Chris Thomas, “Hugh A. G. Houghton,” PER-3038, Confessional Bibliology Research Center, version 1.0-staging.
Revision history
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