Historic Creeds and Confessions

Rick Brannan is the Principal Data Architect of the Bible Aquifer, an openly-licensed repository of biblical resources available in several languages of wider communication (LWCs). The Bible Aquifer directly supports church-based groups translating the Bible into minority languages. He and his family live in Bellingham, Washington. Rick’s academic work spans Bible translation, early Christian literature, and Greek textual studies. He served as Managing Editor of the Lexham English Septuagint and was a key contributor to both the Lexham English Bible and The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. He has translated the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and authored Greek Apocryphal Gospels, Fragments, and Agrapha, an introduction and translation of the apocryphal gospels.

His most recent book, Fragments of Christianity: Fragmentary Witnesses to Early Christian Liturgies, Hymns, Homilies, and Prayers, presents transcriptions, translations, and introductions to thirty early Christian papyri. He is currently writing the Shepherd of Hermas volume for the Baylor Handbook of the Apostolic Fathers and co-editing a forthcoming Lexham Press collection of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha in translation.

Through his independent imprint, Appian Way Press, Rick also explores the use of machine learning and machine translation to make early Christian writings accessible in modern English. Titles published there include the Appian Way Greek Readers series (such as First Apocryphal Apocalypse of John and Acts of Pilate and the Descent of Christ to Hades), new translations like the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies, and works of the early church such as Eusebius’s Preparation for the Gospel.