Richard Bauckham is professor of New Testament studies and Bishop Wardlaw Professor at the University of St. Send us your favorite quotes or passages from this book. “Bauckham’s proposal is both path-breaking and a tour de force.” Finally, Bauckham challenges readers to end the classic division between the 'historical Jesus' and the 'Christ of faith,' proposing instead the 'Jesus of testimony.' Sure to ignite heated debate on the precise character of the testimony about Jesus, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses will be valued by scholars, students, and all who seek to understand the origins of the Gospels. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses also taps into the rich resources of modern study of memory and cognitive psychology, refuting the conclusions of the form critics and calling New Testament scholarship to make a clean break with this long-dominant tradition. To drive home this controversial point, Bauckham draws on internal literary evidence, study of personal names in the first century, and recent developments in the understanding of oral traditions. Noted New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption that the accounts of Jesus circulated as 'anonymous community traditions,' asserting instead that they were transmitted in the name of the original eyewitnesses. This new book argues that the four Gospels are closely based on eyewitness testimony of those who knew Jesus. Historians a historian, had to be a participant in the narrated events, or else at least had to rely on eyewitnesses testimony (autopsy).Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness TestimonyĪvailability: Usually ships within 24 hours. This emphasis on the role of the eyewitnesses builds on and develops Samuel Byrskog's Story as History - History as Story who emphasized that according to Greek and Roman Makes a case that the period between the 'historical Jesus' and the Gospels was spanned 'not by anonymous community transmission, but by the continuing presence and testimony of theĮyewitnesses' (8). His words circulated for a long time as anonymous community traditions with the result that the role of the eyewitnesses from whom the traditions originated is totally diminished. In order to do this, he challenges the basic assumption of form criticism that the traditions about Jesus and In this publication he proposes a way forward 'in which theologyĪnd history may meet in the historical Jesus instead of parting company there' (5). Grant access to the real Jesus who lived in Palestine in the first century, the Jesus of the Gospels in whom Christians believe.

Although Bauckham acknowledges the legitimacy of the historical study of Jesus and the Gospels, he questions whether the enterprise of reconstructing a historical Jesus behind the Gospels can

Jesus and the eyewitnesses