Chris Keith is professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary’s University where he also serves as Director of the Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible.  His publications include Jesus against the Scribal Elite: The Origins of the Conflict (Baker Academic, 2014), Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels (co-edited with Larry W. Hurtado, Baker Academic, 2011), and Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity (co-edited with Anthony Le Donne, T&T Clark, 2012).