Critical-exegetical commentary on the New Testament

The Critical-Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (KeK) is a large collection of Bible commentaries on the New Testament . Since it has been available for more than 175 years, it is also referred to as one of the most traditional commentary works of New Testament science .

The volumes are published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht .

editor

The series was founded by Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer . Currently (as of 2016) Dietrich-Alex Koch is the editor.

Ferdinand Hahn (theologian) belonged to the wider circle of editors .

pads

• Early edition: 1835: HAW Meyer: The Acts of the Apostles , third section.

The conditions in the following refer to the 16th section , Revelation of John :

The first four editions were edited by Friedrich Düsterdieck :

• 1st edition 1859
• 2nd edition 1865
• 3rd edition 1877
• 4th edition 1887

The following two editions were edited by Wilhelm Bousset :

• 5th edition 1896
• 6th edition 1906

Ferdinand Hahn was still the editor in the mid-1990s.

The current editions (Ed. Dietrich-Alex Koch):

• Volume 1/3: Hans Klein : Das Lukasevangelium , 2006. ISBN 978-3-525-51500-6 .
• Volume 2: Rudolf Bultmann : The Gospel of Johannes , 21st edition, 1986. ISBN 978-3-525-51513-6 .
• Volume 3: Jakob Jervell : The Acts of the Apostles , 1998. ISBN 978-3-525-51627-0 .
• Volume 4: Eduard Lohse : The letter to the Romans , 2003. ISBN 978-3-525-51630-0 .
• Volume 5: Hans Conzelmann : The first letter to the Corinthians , 2nd edition, 1981. ISBN 978-3-525-51620-1 .
• Volume 7: Heinrich Schlier : The letter to the Galatians , 6th edition, 1989. ISBN 978-3-525-51545-7 .
• Volume 8: Gerhard Sellin : The Letter to the Ephesians , 2008. ISBN 978-3-525-51550-1 .
• Volume 9/2: Eduard Lohse : The letter to the Colossians and Philemon , 2nd edition, 1977. ISBN 978-3-525-51636-2 .
• Volume 12/1: Leonhard Goppel : The first letter of Peter , 1978. ISBN 978-3-525-51618-8 .
• Volume 12/2: Henning Paulsen : The second Peter and Jude , 1992. ISBN 978-3-525-51626-3 .
• Volume 13: Hans-Friedrich Weiß : The Letter to the Hebrews , 1991. ISBN 978-3-525-51625-6 .
• Volume 14: Georg Strecker : Die Johannesbriefe , 1989. ISBN 978-3-525-51621-8 .
• Volume 15: Martin Dibelius : The Letter of James , 6th edition, 1984. ISBN 978-3-525-51612-6 .
• Untitled: Charles Kingsley Barrett : The Gospel According to John , 1990. ISBN 978-3-525-51623-2 .
• Volume 16: Akira Satake : The Revelation of John , 2008. ISBN 978-3-525-51616-4 .

Commentary on the Apostolic Fathers (KAV), supplementary series to the KeK

The supplementary series currently comprises eight volumes, seven have already been published. The editors (as of 2016) were and are Norbert Brox † , Georg Kretschmar † , Kurt Niederwimmer and Ferdinand Rupert Prostmeier .

The volumes on Didache , Clement's First and Second Epistles , the Epistles of Polycarp , the Martyrdom of Polycarp , the Shepherd of Hermas and the Epistle of Barnabas have already appeared. Volume four of Ignatius' letters is still in preparation.

Web links

• Information about the KeK on the website of the Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht publishing group