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.
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.
He wrote 18 books including the first edition of The Cambridge Companion to the Bible (1997); What Can We Know About Jesus?
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]