Introduction to the New Testament, Volume One: History, Culture, and Religion of the Hellenistic Age

by Helmut Koester

Publisher:

De Gruyter

, 1995

Overview

In this first volume of Introduction to the New Testament, Helmut Koester provides an examination of the historical context leading up to the New Testament. Wide in scope and thorough in its treatment, volume one of this series will give readers an idea of the intellectual, political, and religious climate out of which the New Testament emerged. This valuable text builds into giving readers a better grasp of the background of early Christian writings, which are covered more directly in the second volume.

Product Details

• Title: Introduction to the New Testament, Volume One: History, Culture, and Religion of the Hellenistic Age
• Author: Helmut Koester
• Edition: Second Edition
• Series: Introduction to the New Testament
• Volume: 1
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Print Publication Date: 1995
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. › History of contemporary events; Bible. N.T. › Introductions
• ISBNs: 3110146932, 3110146924, 9783110146936, 9783110146929
• Resource ID: LLS:HSTCLTRRLGNHVOL1
• Resource Type: text.monograph.introduction.new-testament
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-11-24T10:21:19Z

About Helmut Koester

Helmut Koester began teaching at HDS in 1958 and became John H. Morison Research Professor of Divinity and Winn Research Professor of Ecclesiastical History in 2000. His research is primarily in the areas of New Testament interpretation, history of early Christianity, and archaeology of the early Christian period. His publications include Synoptische Ãœberlieferung bei den Apostolischen Vätern (1957); (with James M. Robinson) Trajectories Through Early Christianity (1971); Ancient Christian Gospels (1990); History, Culture, and Religion of the Hellenistic Age (1995); History and Literature of Early Christianity (2000); The Cities of Paul: Images and Interpretations From the Harvard Archaeology Project (2004); Paul and His World: Interpreting the New Testament in Its Context (2007); and From Jesus to the Gospels (2007). From 1975 to 1999 he was editor of Harvard Theological Review, and he is co-editor and chair of the New Testament editorial board of “Hermeneia: A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible.” He is an ordained minister of the Lutheran Church, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Society of Biblical Literature (president 1991), and of the Societas Novi Testamenti Studiorum.