Scholarship
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
Scholarly work on Gospel testimony and eyewitness memory.
- Author
- Richard Bauckham
- Publisher
- Eerdmans
- Tradition
- Christian scholarship
Citation
Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony, 2nd ed., Eerdmans, 2017.
Where this source is used
- John did not write the Gospel of JohnDisputed authorship is not the same as unreliability. John's Gospel claims eyewitness roots, circulated early, and its view of Jesus appears in earlier sources.
- The reliability of the New TestamentPaul's letters preserve a summary of belief from within a few years of Jesus' death, the Gospels were written within living memory, and the text can be recovered with confidence.