How do names in the gospels, and specifically the gospel of Mark, support the case for eyewitness sources?. How does personal involvement by eyewitness sources offer incomparable insight?.Why is trust fundamental to historical knowledge and specifically our knowledge of Jesus through the gospels?.What are the stakes in this debate about the form and origins of the gospels?.What contentions of form criticism does Bauckham intend to refute?.What concerns about gospel scholarship prompted Bauckham to write the first edition of Jesus and the Eyewitnesses?.Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, which won the Michael Ramsey Prize and numerous other awards, is out now in an expanded second edition.ĮerdCast Discount: purchase the book at 30% off by using the code TESTIMONY here in the EerdWord store. Andrews in Scotland and senior scholar at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Richard Bauckham is professor emeritus of New Testament studies at the University of St. The book was meant to provoke a paradigm shift-a shift away from form criticism, which sees the gospels as strands of oral tradition, woven together and adapted by various communities, and toward an understanding of the gospels as eyewitness testimony, compiled and organized by particular authors with access to living memory of the events. In a way, that’s what Richard Bauckham intended. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, when it was first published a decade ago, shook up the field of gospel studies.
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