Chris Keith (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) is a leading scholar in the field of New Testament studies and the historical Jesus, currently serving as Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity and Director of the Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, London. His work bridges historical-critical scholarship with cutting-edge social memory theory, offering innovative approaches to how early Christian traditions were formed and transmitted. Keith is the author and editor of numerous influential works, including Jesus’ Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee, Jesus Against the Scribal Elite, and The Memory of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels. He is also the co-editor (with Anthony Le Donne) of Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity and The Jesus Blog, a popular online hub for academic discussions about the historical Jesus. As the general editor of the multi-volume series The Quest for the Historical Jesus, Keith is helping to redefine what it means to study Jesus in a post-criteria, interdisciplinary era—bringing together historians, literary critics, and social theorists to reexamine one of the most studied figures in human history.