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Noted new testament scholar richard bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption that the stories about jesus circulated as anonymous community traditions, asserting instead that they were transmitted in the names of the original. God crucified and other essays on the new testaments christology. In fact, he contends that all of the gospels except matthew possess clues suggesting their direct dependence on eyewitness testimony. The first eighteen chapters reproduce the entirety of the first edition, without change and retaining the original pagination. Challenging prevailing views, bauckham asserts that the accounts of jesus life were transmitted in the name of original eyewitnesses, not as anonymous community traditions. Jesus and the eyewitnesses second edition richard bauckham s groundbreaking work challenged more than a century of jesus scholarship and signaled a paradigm shift in how scholars understand the origins of the canonical gospels. Dec 18, 2015 i discuss chapter 1 of jesus and the eyewitnesses by richard bauckham. Jesus and the eyewitnesses biblical archaeology society.
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