Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony.(Book review)

From: The Christian Century | Date: July 10, 2007| Author: Kelber, Werner H. | Copyright information

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. By Richard Bauckham. Eerdmans, 552 pp., $32.00.

RICHARD BAUCKHAM, professor at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, poses a severe challenge to form criticism, the highly influential 20th-century methodology that deals with the oral transmission of the biblical stories. Instead of postulating a lengthy process of anonymous oral transmission preceding the formation of the Gospels, as form criticism does,...

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