Koester, Helmut, 1926-,

From Jesus to the Gospels : interpreting the New Testament in its context / [print] Helmut Koester. - Minneapolis : Fortress Press, (c)2007. - xiii, 311 pages ; 24 cm.



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.

Helmut Koester 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.



9780800620936

2007010691

GBA766436 bnb

013823926 Uk


Jesus Christ--Person and offices.


Bible.--Gospels--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

BS2555.K78.F766 2007