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Setting: British university biblical scholarship.
J. Keith Elliott is a British New Testament scholar known for textual criticism, Christian apocrypha, and thoroughgoing eclecticism. His work continues a line associated with George D. Kilpatrick in which the critic evaluates each variation unit primarily through authorial style and transcriptional probability rather than deference to favored manuscripts or text-types.
The method offers a particularly clear case for comparing competing meanings of evidence and authority within modern criticism.
Bibliological positions
Each variation unit should be judged on its own merits, with strong emphasis on intrinsic and transcriptional probability even when the preferred reading has weak direct attestation.
Qualifications and disputes
Thoroughgoing eclecticism still uses manuscript evidence and can criticize inherited scholarly preferences. Its difference lies in weighting, not absence of evidence.
Debate concerns conjectural or sparsely attested readings, circular appeals to authorial style, and whether internal criteria can bear the assigned weight.
Sources
- University of Leeds research portal search — Institutional research references
- British Academy search — Keith Elliott — Academic references
Principal works
- Essays and Studies in New Testament Textual Criticism (1992); legacy
WRK-0211; 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-3021
- 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
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- Sourced orientation record. Education, dated offices, languages, confessional subscription, verified quotations, and independent review may remain incomplete.
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Chris Thomas, “J. Keith Elliott,” PER-3021, Confessional Bibliology Research Center, version 1.0-staging.
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