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.