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This press page provides media information for Keith Shepherd, author of A Case for Democracy and creator of Micro-Genre Theory. It includes author bios, interview angles, fact sheet details, and background on his research into biblical translation and governance meaning.

For interviews, features, podcasts, and review coverage. Keith Shepherd is available for conversations about biblical translation, governance meaning, Micro-Genre Theory, and the argument of A Case for Democracy.

Author bios

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Keith Shepherd is a Guyanese-born, Barbadian-raised author and independent researcher based in Denmark. He is the creator of Micro-Genre Theory, a framework for recovering governance meaning from biblical texts across languages. His first book, A Case for Democracy, argues that the Letter of Jude encodes a parliamentary and constitutional structure.

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Keith Shepherd is an author and independent researcher based in Denmark. Born in Guyana and raised in Barbados, he has spent more than two decades studying what happens when biblical meaning crosses cultures and languages. He is the creator of Micro-Genre Theory, a research framework for recovering governance and institutional content lost in translation. His first book, A Case for Democracy: The Royal Letters, Jude, argues that the Letter of Jude preserves a parliamentary and constitutional structure that conventional readings have missed. His work brings together linguistics, design, and long-form textual analysis.

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Interview angles

The parliament nobody noticed. Why a 25-verse New Testament letter may encode a full parliamentary session.

What translation buried. How institutional meaning disappears when words cross cultures without their governing context.

Why Jude matters now. What a governance reading of Jude changes about citizenship, authority, mercy, and public life.

Independent research at full scale. How one researcher built a long-form textual framework outside institutional academia.

Fact sheet

Pull quotes from Book 1

“He has just walked past a parliament in session.”
“The letter identifies every person in that room as a citizen of a constitutional order: a parliament.”
“Everything that follows is evidence for one claim. The early Christian movement was a civic governance project.”
“The vocabulary remained in the text. It departed the audience.”
“Citizens became congregants. The charter became a creed.”
“The dynasty survived by looking harmless. For two centuries, it worked.”
“The calloused hands were real. What lay behind them was a different kind of real.”
“A royal dynasty endures a reputational wound for generations, deliberately, because visibility was more dangerous than dishonour.”
“The citizen who holds all four postures simultaneously has become, in Jude's terms, architecture.”
“Before you ask ‘is it efficient?’ you ask ‘does it commodify the citizen?’ If the answer is yes, the policy is unconstitutional.”
“Mercy is the state's covenantal obligation of care toward its citizens. Love is the constitutional bond that holds the polity together across time.”
“The prosecution rests.”

Media contact

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