Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2008/09/22 - 538 ページ
This momentous book 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 accounts of Jesus circulated as anonymous community traditions, asserting instead that they were transmitted in the names of the original eyewitness.

To drive home this controversial point, Bauckham draws on internal literary evidence, the use of personal names in first-century Jewish Palestine, and recent developments in the understanding of oral tradition. "Jesus and the Eyewitnesses" also taps into the rich resources of modern study of memory, especially in cognitive psychology, refuting the conclusions of the form critics and calling New Testament scholarship to make a clean break with this long-dominant tradition. Finally, Bauckham challenges readers to end the classic division between the historical Jesus and the Christ of faith, proposing instead the Jesus of testimony as presented by the Gospels.

Sure to ignite heated debate on the precise character of the testimony about Jesus, "Jesus and the Eyewitnesses" is a groundbreaking work that will be valued by scholars, students, and all who seek to understand the origins of the Gospels.

 

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Tables
1
Papias on the Eyewitnesses
12
Names in the Gospel Traditions
39
Palestinian Jewish Names
67
The 99 Most Popular Male Names among Palestinian Jews
85
Index of Palestinian Jewish Female Names in the Gospels
92
The Twelve
93
The Names of the Twelve
113
Transmitting the Jesus Traditions
264
Anonymous Tradition or Eyewitness Testimony?
290
Eyewitness Memory
319
The Gospel of John as Eyewitness Testimony
358
The Witness of the Beloved Disciple
384
Papias on John
412
Polycrates and Irenaeus on John
438
Named Apostles in Irenaeus
469

Eyewitnesses from the Beginning
114
Named Persons in the Gospel of Mark
148
The Petrine Perspective in the Gospel of Mark
155
The PluraltoSingular Narrative Device in
181
Anonymous Persons in Marks Passion Narrative
183
Papias on Mark and Matthew
202
Models of Oral Tradition
240

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Richard Bauckham is professor emeritus of New Testament studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, senior scholar at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and a fellow of both the British Acad-emy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His many other books include Jesus and the God of Israel, Gospel Women, and Jesus: A Very Short Introduction.

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