Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony - Hardcover

Richard Bauckham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802874312 ISBN 13: 9780802874313

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2017

Synopsis

A groundbreaking work in New Testament studies expanded and updated. Winner of the 2007 Christianity Today Book Award in Biblical Studies, this momentous volume argues that the four Gospels are closely based on the eyewitness testimony of those who personally knew Jesus. Noted New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption that the Jesus accounts circulated as ""anonymous community traditions,"" asserting instead that they were transmitted in the names of the original eyewitnesses. In this expanded second edition Bauckham is adding a new preface, three substantial new chapters that respond to critics and clarify key points of his argument, and a comprehensive new bibliography.|A groundbreaking work in New Testament studies expanded and updated. Winner of the 2007 Christianity Today Book Award in Biblical Studies, this momentous volume argues that the four Gospels are closely based on the eyewitness testimony of those who personally knew Jesus. Noted New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption that the Jesus accounts circulated as ""anonymous community traditions,"" asserting instead that they were transmitted in the names of the original eyewitnesses.In this expanded second edition Bauckham is adding a new preface, three substantial new chapters that respond to critics and clarify key points of his argument, and a comprehensive new bibliography.

About this title

Review:

"This book is a remarkable piece of detective work, resulting in a fresh and vivid approach to dozens, perhaps hundreds, of well-known problems and passages."
(N T Wright)

About the Author:

Richard Bauckham is professor emeritus of New Testamentstudies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, seniorscholar at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and fellow of both theBritish Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0802874312
• ISBN 13: 9780802874313
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 700