Hugh Houghton is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing. 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 of Birmingham 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 is currently Principal Investigator on the COMPAUL project funded by the European Research Council and also Principal Investigator on the “Workspace for Collaborative Editing”, a collaborative endeavour between the universities of Birmingham, Münster and Trier funded by the AHRC/DFG. Dr Houghton has served as an advisor for several projects, including a facsimile series of Irish Latin manuscripts (ArCH) and the Biblindex database hosted by Sources Chrétiennes in Lyon, France. He was one of the UK representatives on the European Science Foundation Interedition initiative. He is currently Treasurer of the International Greek New Testament Project, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Executive Editor of the book series Texts and Studies published by Gorgias Press.

Dr Houghton's publications include a very well-received study of Augustine's biblical quotations, published by Oxford University Press in 2008, several journal articles on Latin Gospels, and broader surveys of aspects of the textual history of the New Testament. He has identified two new manuscript witnesses to the Old Latin versions of the Gospels and was instrumental in the rediscovery of complete sets of images of two tenth-century bibles which were destroyed in the Spanish Civil War. He has worked on a number of digital editions, including www.codexsinaiticus.org, the electronic transcription of Codex Bezae and www.iohannes.com, and has presented papers at conferences on biblical and patristic literature in the UK, Europe and North America.

• The New Testament in Latin
• The New Testament in Greek
• The Bible in Early Christian Authors

• COMPAUL - 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 aims to examine 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 - an edition of the earliest Latin translations of the Gospel according to John, based on surviving manuscripts and quotations in Christian authors.
• Workspace for Collaborative Editing - an online environment for editing evidence for the text of the New Testament, being developed in Birmingham and Germany.
• International Greek New Testament Project - working towards the Editio Critica Maior, the fullest presentation of the evidence for the Greek New Testament

Research at ITSEE

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• ITSEE website co-ordinator www.birmingham.ac.uk/itsee
• Member of Working Groups 2 & 3 of Interedition (European Science Foundation COST action)
• Consultative Committee of Biblindex project on biblical quotations (www.biblindex.org)
• Treasurer and Webmaster of the International Greek New Testament Project (www.igntp.org)
• Executive Editor of the book series Texts and Studies (Gorgias Press)
• Member of the Society of Biblical Literature, International Association of Patristic Studies, Association of Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections, Classical Association

Books

• H.A.G. Houghton, Augustine's Text of John. Patristic Citations and Latin Gospel Manuscripts. (Oxford Early Christian Studies) Oxford: OUP, 2008. [OUP]
• H.A.G. Houghton and D.C. Parker (eds), Textual Variation: Theological and Social Tendencies? (Texts and Studies 3.6) Piscataway NJ: Gorgias Press, 2008. [Gorgias]

Editions

• P.H. Burton, J. Balserak, H.A.G. Houghton, D.C. Parker (edd.) Vetus Latina Iohannes. The Verbum Project. The Old Latin Manuscripts of John's Gospel. 2007. Electronic edition, hosted at www.iohannes.com
• Various Contributors, Codex Sinaiticus Digital Edition. London: British Library, 2009. Electronic Edition, hosted at www.codexsinaiticus.org
• P.H. Burton, H.A.G. Houghton, R.F. MacLachlan, D.C. Parker (edd.) Vetus Latina 19. Iohannes. Freiburg: Herder, 2011–.
• Various Contributors, Codex Bezae Digital Transcription. Cambridge: University Library, 2012. Electronic Edition, hosted at http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-NN-00002-00041/. [Birmingham epapers Greek] [Birmingham epapers Latin]

Selected Articles

• H.A.G. Houghton, "The Electronic Transcription of Codex Sinaiticus" in Proceedings of the Fifth Zagrebin Readings, National Library of Russia (forthcoming)
• H.A.G. Houghton, “Patristic Evidence in the New Edition of the Vetus Latina Iohannes” in M. Vinzent et al. (eds) Biblical Quotations in Patristic Texts (Studia Patristica fascicle). Leuven: Peeters (forthcoming)
• H.A.G. Houghton,  "The Use of the Latin Fathers for New Testament Textual Criticism" in B.D. Ehrman and M.W. Holmes (edd.), The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis (second edition; NTTSD 42), Leiden: Brill, 2012, pp. 375–405. [Birmingham ePrints]
• H.A.G. Houghton, "Chapter Divisions, Capitula Lists, and the Old Latin Versions of John" Revue Bénédictine 121.2 (2011) 316–356. [Birmingham ePrints]
• H.A.G. Houghton, "Recent Developments in New Testament Textual Criticism" Early Christianity 2.2 (2011) 245–268. [IngentaConnect] [Birmingham ePrints]
• H.A.G. Houghton, “‘Flattening’ in Latin Biblical Citations” in J. Baun, A. Cameron, M. Edwards and M. Vinzent (eds) Studia Patristica. Papers from the Fifteenth International Patristics Conference. Vol. XLV. Leuven: Peeters, 2010, 271–6. [Birmingham ePrints]
• H.A.G. Houghton, "The St Petersburg Insular Gospels: Another Old Latin Witness" Journal of Theological Studies 61.1 (2010) 110–127. [JTS] [Birmingham ePrints]
• H.A.G. Houghton, "A Newly Identified Old Latin Gospel Manuscript: Würzburg Universitätsbibliothek M.p.th.f.67" Journal of Theological Studies 60.1 (2009) 1–21. [JTS] [Birmingham ePrints]
• H.A.G. Houghton, "Augustine's Adoption of the Vulgate Gospels" New Testament Studies 54.3 (2008) 450–64. [NTS] [Birmingham ePrints]
• H.A.G. Houghton, "The Discourse of Prayer in the Major Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles" Apocrypha 15 (2004) 171–200 [abstract] [Birmingham ePrints]