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My office is Room 359 in the ERI Building.

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• PhD (Birmingham)
• MPhil (Cantab.)
• MA (Cantab.)
• BA (Leeds)

Hugh Houghton is Professor of New Testament Textual Scholarship and Director of the . He holds two degrees in Classics from Cambridge, specialising in the linguistics of early Christian texts, and degrees in Theology from Leeds and Birmingham. His first appointment at the University 麻豆精选 was in 2003 as a Teaching Fellow in the Institute for Archaeology and Antiquity, writing and delivering courses on Greek and Latin language and literature. He has been involved with ITSEE since its inception, working as a Research Fellow on the Vetus Latina Iohannes and Codex Sinaiticus projects. He was Principal Investigator on the COMPAUL project funded by the European Research Council from 2011 to 2016; from 2010 to 2013, he was also Principal Investigator on the 鈥淲orkspace for Collaborative Editing鈥�, a collaborative endeavour between the universities 麻豆精选, M眉nster and Trier funded by the AHRC/DFG.

From 2018-23, he is principal investigator on the European Research Council聽CATENA project, and was co-investigator on the AHRC聽Codex Zacynthius project聽from 2018鈥�20. In recent years, he has identified new witnesses to the earliest Latin translations of the Gospels, worked on the online聽Codex Sinaiticus听补苍诲听Codex Bezae聽and published a study of the evidence for the gospel text used by Augustine. His recent publications include a monograph on聽聽with Oxford University Press and an English translation of the rediscovered fourth-century聽Commentary on the Gospels聽by Fortunatianus of Aquileia. Both of these are available online in open access.

He was appointed Director of ITSEE and Director of Research for the Department of Theology and Religion in 2017. He is one of the convenors of the聽聽and was a Director of the International Patristics Conference from 2015鈥�20. He serves as executive editor of the聽Texts and Studies聽book series and has been on various editorial boards including the Journal of Theological Studies 补苍诲听New Testament Studies聽and the聽Corpus Christianorum series latina聽(Brepols). He is on the editorial committee of the United Bible Societies'聽Greek New Testament and the Nestle-Al补苍诲听Novum Testamentum Graece.

Professor Houghton has taught modules on New Testament Greek and the Pauline Epistles, as well as the Special Study Module and Undergraduate Dissertation. He lectures on the History of Christianity in Birmingham for the first-year module Lived Religions in Birmingham and Beyond.

The manuscripts and textual history of the New Testament

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I work on the text of the New Testament in Latin and Greek, using and developing electronic tools to create digital editions of individual manuscripts and biblical books which will provide the basis for future generations of scholarship. My long-term research is overseeing a new edition of the Pauline Epistles in Greek as Executive Editor for the International Greek New Testament Project. I have also published extensively on the manuscripts and text of the Latin New Testament and the use of quotations in early Christian writers.

• CATENA聽- a five-year project on Greek New Testament commentary manuscripts funded by the European Research Council.
• 聽- a five-year project investigating the earliest Latin and Greek commentaries on the Pauline Epistles as sources for the biblical text funded by the European Research Council. The project examined the commentators' treatment of the biblical text, the manuscript transmission of these works and the re-use of these texts in later writings.
• Vetus Latina Iohannes聽- an edition of the earliest Latin translations of the Gospel according to John, based on surviving manuscripts and quotations in Christian authors.
• An edition of the Old Latin versions of the principal Pauline Epistles (Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Galatians).
• 聽- an online environment for editing evidence for the text of the New Testament,聽 developed in Birmingham and Germany.
• 聽- working towards the聽Editio Critica Maior, the fullest presentation of the evidence for the Greek New Testament.
• 聽- a project to transcribe and examine their text.
• Codex Zacynthius Project聽- a new edition, transcription and translation of the earliest New Testament catena manuscript using multispectral images.

• Department of Theology and Religion, Collaborative Programmes Officer (St Mary's College, Oscott)
• Departmental Representative, Anglican Chaplaincy Trust
• Executive Editor (Pauline Epistles), Treasurer and Webmaster for the International Greek New Testament Project ()
• Executive Editor of the book series Texts and Studies (Gorgias Press)
• Academic Board of Corpus Christianorum
• Co-organiser, Birmingham Colloquium
• Member of the Society of Biblical Literature, Studiorum Noui Testamenti Societas (SNTS), International Association of Patristic Studies, Association of Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections, European Association of Digital Humanities