Keith Massey

Keith Massey, Ph.D. and his twin brother Rev. Kevin Massey, born June 15, 1966 in Madison, Wisconsin, are linguists who have have published controversial positions on linguistic and epigraphic topics. Notable among these are their purported partial decipherment of the Phaistos Disk and their claim that the Kensington Stone contains an authenticating mark of a medieval artifact.

Fred Wrixon, in his classic work on linguistic decipherment "Codes, Ciphers and Other Cryptic and Clandestine Communication," suggests that the Massey Twins' work on the Phaistos Disk offers promise of the final decipherment of the artifact.

Keith Massey has argued that a substratum within Romanian exhibits Italic but not strictly Latinate characteristics. He suggests further that Italic traits in the Ezerovo Ring (assumed to be a sample of the Thracian language) may vindicate 's theory about the close relationship between Latin and Dacian.

Keith Massey has published scholarship in an eclectic series of fields. He has forwarded a theory about the cryptic "Mystery Letters" of the Qur'an (the Muqatta'at). Massey has asserted that a previously unrecognized Vergilian allusion lay behind John Henry Newman's famous hymn "Lead, Kindly Light." He has also argued that the repetition of divinations contributed to the development of the meaning "favorable" for the Latin ordinal Secundus.

Other Massey Twins research has gained attention in the field of religious dialogue. The eminent scholar on inter-religious dialogue, Jacques Waardenburg terms as important the Massey Twins' work on ancient religious creeds in Muslims and Others: Relations in Context.

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