Howard Clark Kee

Howard Clark Kee
Howard Clark Kee
Born	July 28, 1920; Beverly, NJ
Died	April 2, 2017 (aged 96); Haverford, PA
Nationality	American
Academic background
Education	Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M)
Alma mater	Yale University (Ph.D)
Academic work
Discipline	New Testament studies
Institutions	Boston University; University of Pennsylvania; Drew University; Bryn Mawr College
Notable works	"The Gospel According to Matthew" (1971); The Cambridge Companion to the Bible (1997); What Can We Know About Jesus? (1990); Who Are the People of God? Early Christian Models of Community (1997); The Beginnings of Christianity: An Introduction to the New Testament (2005); Understanding the New Testament (5th ed., 1993); and Jesus in History (3rd ed., 1995)

Howard Clark Kee (Beverly, NJ, July 28, 1920 – Haverford, PA, April 2, 2017) ^[1] was William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Biblical Studies Emeritus at Boston University School of Theology (1977-1988)^[2] and a visiting faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kee attended Dallas Theological Seminary, attaining a Th. M. degree in 1944. After earning a PhD from Yale University in 1951, Kee was an instructor in religion and classics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1951 until 1953. He was an assistant professor and professor of New Testament at Drew University from 1953 until 1968. In 1968 he was appointed the Rufus Jones professor of history of religion at Bryn Mawr College where he taught until 1977 when he became the William Goodwin Aurelio professor of Biblical Studies at Boston University, a position he held until his retirement in 1989.^[3]

Kee contributed the commentary on "The Gospel According to Matthew" to The Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary On the Bible published by Abingdon Press in 1971.

He wrote 18 books including the first edition of The Cambridge Companion to the Bible (1997); What Can We Know About Jesus? (1990); Who Are the People of God? Early Christian Models of Community (1997); The Beginnings of Christianity: An Introduction to the New Testament (2005); Understanding the New Testament (5th ed., 1993); and Jesus in History (3rd ed., 1995)^[4]

References

^ Legacy.com.
^ "History". Boston University School of Theology. Archived from the original on 25 September 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
^ Obituary, The Recorder, Greenfield, MA, April 6, 2017.
^ "Who Are the People of God? Early Christian Models of Community". Yale University Press. 1995. Retrieved 24 August 2013.