Review of R. Bauckham, 'Jesus and the eyewitnesses: the Gospels as eyewitness testimony': Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006, 538 pp, ISBN 9780802831620, USD 58.99

Title
Review of R. Bauckham, 'Jesus and the eyewitnesses: the Gospels as eyewitness testimony': Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006, 538 pp, ISBN 9780802831620, USD 58.99
Publication Date
2009
Author(s)
Charlesworth, Scott
Type of document
Review
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Australian Institute of Archaeology
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:6582
Abstract
In this large and closely argued book Richard Bauckham of the University of St. Andrews contends that eyewitness testimony as a category of historiography is 'an entirely appropriate means of access to the historical reality of Jesus' (5). He sets out to supplement Samuel Byrskog's 'Story as history – history as story: the gospel tradition in the context of ancient oral history (Leiden: Brill, 2000)', which demonstrates that ancient historians considered the best kind of historical evidence to be eyewitness testimony deriving from personal involvement in events – by identifying eyewitnesses and eyewitness testimony in the Gospel tradition.
Link
link
Citation
Buried History, v.45, p. 33-35
ISSN
0007-6260
Start page
33
End page
35

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