Howard Clark Kee (Beverly, NJ, July 28, 1920 – Haverford, PA, April 2, 2017) was William Goodwin Aurelio

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(1977-1988) and a visiting faculty member at the

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. After earning a PhD from

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in 1951, Kee was an instructor in religion and classics at the

from 1951 until 1953. He was an assistant professor and professor of New Testament at

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from 1953 until 1968. In 1968 he was appointed the Rufus Jones professor of history of religion at

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where he taught until 1977 when he became the William Goodwin Aurelio professor of Biblical Studies at

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, a position he held until his retirement in 1989. 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)

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