Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Wm. B. Eerdman, 2d ed. 2017)
Book Review
Thomas Alderman 2024
I. Introduction.
Cambridge scholar and New Testament theologian Richard Bauckham has two major complaints about mainstream New Testament scholarship: it assumes that the Gospel tradition reached the authors of the Fourfold Gospel only after a long, uncontrolled process of anonymous oral transmission; and it often exhibits a deep scepticism about the reliability of the text unless each passage can be independently verified. In this important work, Bauckham deals a decisive blow to both of these misconceptions and makes a powerful argument that the text of the New Testament as it has come down to us is “close to the eyewitness reports of the words and deeds of Jesus.”1
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