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From Jesus to the Gospels : interpreting the New Testament in its context / Helmut Koester.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koester, Helmut, 1926-2016
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Gospels--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Gospels.
- Jesus Christ--Person and offices.
- Jesus Christ.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 311 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Helmut Koester offers a lifetime's insights into the message of the historical Jesus and the practices and trajectories that shaped the Jesus tradition. Koester's vast knowledge of the ancient world and the literature of the early Christian movements informs these historically and theologically astute essays. Topics include the early "Q" community, extracanonical sayings of Jesus, early liturgical practices, the theologies of the canonical Gospels, and impulses toward Gnosticism and beyond.
- Contents:
- Apocryphal 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 story of Jesus and the Gospels
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- "Publications of Helmut Koester, 1991-2007": pages 293-299.
- ISBN:
- 9780800620936
- 0800620933
- OCLC:
- 86117504
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