Author. Independent researcher. Designer.
Over two decades recovering what translation buried.
Keith Shepherd is an author and independent researcher whose work focuses on biblical translation, governance meaning, and the Letter of Jude. He is the creator of Micro-Genre Theory, a long-form research framework for testing how institutional meaning survives, mutates, or disappears when texts cross languages and cultures.
A Case for Democracy: The Royal Letters, Jude
The Letter of Jude is only 25 verses long. Read in the civic register of its source languages, it is not only a warning letter but a parliamentary session: prosecution, verdict, standing orders, ratification vote. This book sets out the evidence in full.
Verse by verse
Every major claim is traced through Jude's Greek and its Hebrew institutional background. The argument is shown, not asserted.
Public research record
Three open-access papers on Zenodo set out the method behind the book. Read the research before you read the conclusion.
Twenty years of work
The first published result of a research programme that began in 2000, documented through ORCID and public archives.
This is the first of four books: evidence, implications, application, and reference. Start with the case. Then follow the consequences. See the series.