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		Jeff cites Koester as evidence of a "relationship between Q and Thomas one finds suggested in the [secondary] literature" in reply to Steve Davies speculation about independent parallel trajectories of Q1>Q2 and Thom1>Thom2 (which he claims "nobody has ever suggested").
		The fact that Koester presents Thomas before Q in his own chapter on "the collection of the sayings of Jesus" is clear evidence that he favors the second of these alternatives.
		Koester & Crossan base their arguments for the independence of GThom from Q or any canonical text largely on a neutral examination of the form & content of the sayings themselves.
	www.gospels.net /xtalk/thomas/thomas0823.txt (1027 words)

	Catholic Biblical Quarterly, The: Ephesos, Metropolis of Asia: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Its Archaeology, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HELMUT KOESTER (ed.), Ephesos, Metropolis of Asia: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Its Archaeology, Religion, and Culture (HTS 41; Valley Forge, PA: Trinity, 1995).
		Koester contributes a clear and necessary chapter on the city's links to these letters and other Christian texts, and to such Christian leaders as Apollos, John (the author of Revelation), and Ignatius.
		This book would not exist if Helmut Koester had not traded on his stature as an international, senior scholar to make contact with the Austrian excavators and begin the collaboration whose promising results are published here.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3679/is_199710/ai_n8759789 (1078 words)

	Role of women in Christian churches of Paul's day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HELMUT KOESTER: I think everything that has been said negative about Paul's attitude -- negative attitude to women -- is nonsense.
		HELMUT KOESTER: Paul had a vision of what the society -- the community -- of the new age should be like, and of the principles of the community in new ages.
		And the concept of a new community that belonged to a new age implied that as a charter...
	www.bibletexts.com /terms/women01.htm (1623 words)

	Metacrock's Blog: Doherty's Stupidity
		Scholars such as Helmut Koester have concluded that earlier "allusions" to Gospel-like material are likely floating traditions which themselves found their way into the written Gospels.
		Koester is saying that Crossan is wrong in thinking that the early Christian were writing “major literary compositions” (i.e., as major as Crossan’s Cross Gospel) at “a very early date” (i.e., as early as “the middle of the first century CE”).
		Since Koester thinks the oral tradition persisted for many decades and influenced even the later stages of the written tradition (219), what he says is quite consistent with Egerton having been first put into writing in the late first or even the second century.
	metacrock.blogspot.com /2005/09/dohertys-stupidity.html (4236 words)

	jesuspuzzell2
		Koester may not be as famous as Crosson but he is just as expert and just as liberal.
		Koester tells us "Paul not only alludes to the sayings where were evidently of crucial importance to his opponents, he also adopts their schema of revelation which speaks of the things that were formerly hidden, but have now been revealed.
		Koester says that with this background in mind the way he speaks of the cross as hidden wisdom before the ages becomes understandable, because he is dealing with this Gnosticizing faction in their own terms.
	www.geocities.com /metagetics/Puzzle2.html (7488 words)

	The Scholarly Corruption of Egerton
		The gnosticism associated with John claims special "knowledge" hidden from the average person; knowledge concerning the elect's origin from a divine plane alien to this world (which is of the devil: John 17).
		Koester and others think that collections of dialogues developed into dialogue narratives, and thence to dialogue-miracle gospels.
		I agree with Koester that the evidence is in favour of the process outlined above.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /zimriel/Egerton/egerton.html (1437 words)

	Luke the Evangelist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Our next earliest account of Luke is in the Anti-Marcionite Prologue to the Gospel of Luke, a document once thought to date to the 2nd century AD, but more recently has been dated to the later 4th century.
		However Helmut Koester claims the following part – the only part preserved in the original Greek – may have been composed in the late 2nd century:
		Luke is a Syrian of Antioch, a Syrian by race, a physician by profession.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luke_the_Evangelist (610 words)

	Koester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Professor Helmut Koester will deliver his main talk, The Beginnings of Christianity: Worship of Jesus as the Lord, Wednesday, April 2, in room G24 Eiesland Hall at 8 p.m.
		Born in Hamburg, Germany, Koester studied theology at the University of Marburg, Germany, where he received his doctor of theology degree in 1954.
		Koester was awarded an honorary master of arts degree from Harvard, and an honorary doctoral degree in theology from the University of Geneva/Switzerland in 1959, and 1989, respectively.
	www.nis.wvu.edu /Releases_Old/koester.htm (308 words)

	Sharing in the Christian churches of Paul's day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Excerpts from Dr. Helmut Koester's September 13, 1997 address entitled, "St. Paul: His Mission to the Greek Cities and His Competitors," which he delivered at The Foundation for Biblical Research, Charlestown, NH, USA.
		You can explore more documentation on the role of women in New Testament churches by referring to Dr. Koester's two-volume Introduction to the New Testament (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982, and revised in 1995), which is part of the Hermeneia series.
		Please keep in mind that Dr. Koester's address included many extemporaneous remarks, so the flow of thoughts is not as tight and carefully constructed as written prose, such as that found in his many published books.
	www.bibletexts.com /terms/sharing1.htm (1021 words)

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		The high-priestly family, allied with the leading priestly families, was also charged with the supervision of justice and the regulation of cult and ritual." (Koester, p.
		The law of this state was not a civil law (albeit one with divine legitimation), but the religious law given by God, and the high priest was the highest official." The Law (Torah) included sanctions designed to emphasize the religious distinctiveness of the Jewish people, such as purity regulations and prohibition against intermarriage with non-Jews.
		Eating of pork became the test of loyalty: those who refused demonstrated that they were part of the rebellion.
	people.uncw.edu /zervosg/PR337/KoesterMacc.doc (1539 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Intro. to the NT V.1: History, Culture, and Religion of the Hellenistic Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Helmut Koester is obviously an intelligent man, but his writing on the New Testament is blatantly skewed.
		Koester remains focused on the New Testament throughout the book, differing from Volume I by not subjecting the reader to diatribes on arcane subject matter that only partially involved the biblical world.
		Koester expands beyond traditional New Testament books by including many that most people will be unfamiliar with, but together comprise the majority of early Christian writings.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/3110146924 (1005 words)

	b-greek-digest V1 #712
		And I want to state emphatically that Helmut Koester also possesses this quality, even at great cost to himself (as in the Bob Funk affair).
		Hence Helmut has loyally defended Smith through the years, and gave him a forum at Harvard when he otherwise would have been dismissed out of hand.
		Helmut is an honest scholar, and a great scholar.
	www.ibiblio.org /bgreek/archives/greek-3/msg01042.html (1712 words)

	Douglas Gilliland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Inevitably, when the US media wants to interview a scholar on the subject of the life of Christ, the media chooses from their ready pool of liberal scholars such as the participants from the Jesus Seminar.
		Great emphasis was placed on "evidence" from the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, etc. Conservative scholars are not consulted or are marginalized as liberal scholars are lauded.
		Koester, for instance, dates the Gospel of Thomas as being as early as the first century.
	www.geocities.com /lifeofjesus2001/histjc.htm (1308 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 28, No. 4 - January 1972 - BOOK REVIEW - Trajectories Through Early Christianity
		No one has done more in recent years than James Robinson and Helmut Koester to inject a sense of urgency and excitement into New Testament studies.
		in turn, enables one to discern how a prior stage of tradition is interpreted in the subsequent stage, and in (6) Koester attempts to correlate the four Gattungen isolated in (5) with the "context," "event," "belief," and "sociological implications" which are historically involved in the formulation of the genre.
		A significant feature of Koester's contribution is the emphasis on the diversity of the earliest traditions about Jesus, which, going back to Walter Bauer, he correlates chiefly with geographical rather than temporal differences.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jan1972/v28-4-bookreview9.htm (765 words)

	The Gospel of Thomas. A worthless document
		However, the main view we shall consider is that held by Helmut Koester and his students, among them, Ron Cameron (as expressed in Camer.FECy) and Stephen Patterson (Patt.JGThom).
		Koester says the Gospel of Thomas [Koes.Traj, 119], along with other similar writings, "must be considered as historically of equal value with the canonical writings; they cannot be depreciated by reason of their noncanonical nature." Let's break down the arguments used to declare pieces of GThom to be earlier than the canonical Gospels.
		Koester and Patterson [KoePat.GThom, 32], specifically regarding dependence on Matthew, state that, "...if the order of the sayings in the Gospel of Thomas were the same as the order into which the author of the Gospel of Matthew had deliberately composed them," then, they say, demonstration of dependency on Matthew could be accepted.
	www.tektonics.org /qt/thomasgospel.html (10408 words)

	THE PAGANIZATION OF NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES, BY PETER JONES TCRNews2.com, Traditional Catholic Reflections & Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Both separately and together, Koester and Robinson sought to uncover the radical pluralism in the earliest church, causing Christian theology to develop along various trajectories.
		Koester readily admits that this is not value-free, objective science.
		Helmut Koester, in the epilogue of a collection of essays in his honor,21 gives his own prospective for future directions of the New Testament field.
	www.tcrnews2.com /biblicalstudies.html (9449 words)

	Harvard Professor to Deliver 2004 Bellarmine Lecture \| Saint Louis University
		Helmut Koester of Harvard Divinity School will deliver the 2004 Bellarmine Lecture, sponsored by Theology Digest, at 8 p.m.
		Koester studied under Rudolf Bultmann at the University of Marburg, worked with Günther Bornkamm at the University of Heidelberg and has been at Harvard for more than 45 years, where he is John H. Morison Research Professor of New Testament Studies and Winn Research Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the Divinity School.
		He chairs the New Testament editorial board of Hermeneia: A Historical and Critical Commentary to the New Testament and is author of several books, including “History and Literature of Early Christianity,” “History, Culture and Religion of the Hellenistic Age,” and “Trajectories Through Early Christianity,” with James M. Robinson.
	www.slu.edu /readstory/more/4691 (196 words)

	Secret Mark
		On the other hand, Helmut Koester and J.D. Crossan think that canonical Mark is derived from Secret Mark by elimination of these passages.
		Helmut Koester writes: "It is immediately evident that this story shows many similarities with the story of the raising of Lazarus in John 11.
		Koester believes that Secret Mark is an expansion of the original Mark, and this makes for at least three different editions of Mark: original Mark, Secret Mark, and canonical Mark.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /secretmark.html (1174 words)

	Dating Early Christian Gospels
		[4] Helmut Koester, Ancient Christian Gospels: Their History and Development (Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990), 1-40.
		[5] Helmut Koester, “Apocryphal and Canonical Gospels,” HTR 73 (1980): 107-112.
		Koester employs these two kinds of evidence, although he also recognizes other ways to identify early gospels.
	journalofbiblicalstudies.org /Issue4/Articles/dating_early_christian_gospels.htm (3239 words)

	1. INTRODUCTION
		While Koester correctly identifies the genre of Thomas as the sayings of a sage, or Logoi Sofwn, he does not consider the consequences of such a definition.
		Koester argues that the Gospel of Thomas and the discourses of John's gospel belong to a trajectory based primarily on sayings.
		While dwelling on the differences Koester does not explain similarities, except for the fact that both John and Thomas dwell on the pool of the Synoptic sayings tradition.
	www.misericordia.edu /users/davies/thomas/johnthom.htm (11342 words)

	John the Non-Messiah
		Helmut Koester pointed out a tradition in which John the Baptist denied that he was the Christ (p.
		This is preserved in the Gospels of John and Luke, and Justin Martyr's Dialogue with the Jew Trypho:
		John Romanides put up a brave attempt to prove John 3:3-8 was the proof text of Justin's first Apology chapter 61.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /zimriel/Egerton/baptist.html (997 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 40, No. 2 - July 1983 - BOOK REVIEW - Introduction to the New Testament: Volume 1: History, ...
		In these two volumes, Professor Helmut Koester of Harvard Divinity School integrates his reconstruction of the beginnings of Christianity into a flowing historical account of the Greco-Roman world from before Alexander to the end of the "golden age" under Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.
		The complexity of Koester's reconstruction of the beginnings of Christianity will be astounding to some.
		In his own way, Koester defends a position that is as radical by the standards of American evangelicalism as that of the Tübingen School in its day.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1983/v40-2-bookreview12.htm (736 words)

	Articles
		Buried in earthenware were 52 papyrus texts, some dating from the beginning of the Christian era and presenting a Jesus who said things that could have come out of the mouth of a Zen Master, or even the Buddha himself.
		Professor Helmut Koester of Harvard University has observed that one of these gospels in particular -- 'The Gospel of Thomas" -- includes traditions even older than the Gospels of the New Testament, earlier than Matthew, Mark, Luke or John, and also closer to the actual life of Jesus.
		These are known as the "Gnostic Gospels," from the Greek word "gnosis," meaning "to know" -- to know oneself, to have an insight into oneself in an intuitive sense.
	www.freethinkerscs.com /articles/zenjesus.html (538 words)

	TIC Talk 39 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James Robinson and Helmut Koester, who have both worked intensively on the Nag Hammadi documents, provided background to the recent discussion about the genre of Q. Koester proposed four kinds of early gospel forms behind both the later canonical and extracanonical gospels: sayings collections, aretologies, revelation discourses, and passion gospels.
		Robinson envisioned "trajectories" in the emergence of early Christian literature, and situated the genre of Q and the Gospel of Thomas as "sayings of the wise" in a trajectory from Proverbs to the Sayings of the Fathers.
		The majority of Q scholars, including Jacobson, Koester, Levine, Piper, Robinson, Sato, and Uro, now accept some form of the thesis that several Q strata exist.
	www.ubs-translations.org /tictalk/tt39.html (5695 words)

	Anti-Marcionite Prologues
		While a date in the second half of the 4th century is likely for the Prologues for Mark and John and the second part of the Prologue for Luke, the first part of the latter may have been written much earlier.
		Helmut Koester quotes the Anti-Marcionite Prologue for Luke (op.
		Koester assigns the first half of this prologue to Luke to the second half of the second century and the rest of the Anti-Marcionite Prologues to the second half of the fourth century.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /antimarcion.html (343 words)

	HebertsNet - In Progress - Front Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As many of you know, I spent May and a portion of June in Greece and Turkey (see the photo album) with Profs.
		Helmut Koester, Laura Nasrallah, and Klaus Nohlen, and a few other students from Harvard and even fewer from Wiesbaden.
		This was of course a fantastic experience, and photos can be seen at HebertsNet (must be registered to view–at some point I will put photos up on this site as well).
	www.heberts.net /~stephen (401 words)

	Academic Directory on Women in Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Role of Women in Christian Churches of Paul's Day by Helmut Koester
		This article by Helmut Koester of Harvard University is excerpted from a 1997 address to the Foundation for Biblical Research, in which he outlines the comparatively high status enjoyed by women in early Christian churches.
		Koester uses the examples of such Pauline contemporaries as Phoebe, Prisca, and Junia to demonstrate that women held positions of considerable authority in primitive Christianity.
	www.alllearn.org /er/tree.jsp?c=42457 (586 words)

	Ebla Forum: Recommended Reading on the New Testament and Early Christianity
		Introduction to the New Testament: History, Culture, and Religion of the Hellenistic Age
		This is the second volume in the introduction by Harvard professor Koester.
		A prolific and respected New Testament scholar wrote this NT introduction for the layman at the height of his career.
	eblaforum.org /library/bcah/ntreference.html (3980 words)

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