From Jesus to the Gospels: Interpreting the New Testament in Its Context

by Helmut Koester

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 2007

Overview

Helmut Koester, one of today’s foremost New Testament scholars, offers a lifetime’s insights into the message of the historical Jesus and the traditions, practices, and trajectories that shaped the Gospels and other early Christian literature including “Q” and the Gnostic Gospels.

Key Features

• Examination of the historical Jesus
• Provides contemporary New Testament research
• Explores early Christian extracanonical literature

Contents

• Apochryphal and Canonical Gospels
• Gospels and Gospel Traditions in the Second Century
• The Text of the Synoptic Gospels in the Second Century
• From the Kerygma-Gospel to Written Gospels
• The Synoptic Sayings Gospel Q in the Early Communities of Jesus’ Followers
• The Extracanonical Sayings of the Lord as Products of the Christian Community
• Mark 9:43–47 and Quintilian 8.3.75
• The History-of-Religions School, Gnosis, and the Gospel of John
• History and Cult in the Gospel of John and in Ignatius of Antioch
• The Story of the Johannine Tradition
• Dialogue and the Tradition of Sayings in the Gnostic Texts of Nag Hammadi
• The Farewell Discourses of the Gospel of John
• Gnostic Sayings and Controversy Traditions in John 8:12–59
• Jesus the Victim
• The Memory of Jesus’ Death and the Worship of the Risen Lord
• The Historical Jesus and the Cult of the Kyrios
• The Sayings of Q and Their Image of Jesus
• The Historical Jesus and His Sayings
• Eschatological Thanksgiving Meals: From the Didache to Q and Jesus

Product Details

• Title: From Jesus to the Gospels: Interpreting the New Testament in Its Context
• Author: Helmut Koester
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 2007
• Logos Release Date: 2017
• Pages: 328
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. Gospels › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Jesus Christ › Person and offices
• ISBNs: 9780800620936, 0800620933
• Resource ID: LLS:FRMJESGOSPKOESTER
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:04:35Z

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.