![]() The eyewitnesses themselves remained throughout their lifetimes accessible and authoritative sources of their own reports about Jesus, and the Gospels were written during the lifetime of some of them. Contrary to the overwhelming trend of Gospels scholarship for nearly a century, it proposes that the traditions about Jesus did not circulate merely as anonymous community traditions until they were incorporated in the Gospels, but were transmitted in the name of the eyewitnesses from whom they derived. It argues that the four Gospels are closely based on the eyewitness testimony of those who knew Jesus. This book calls for a paradigm shift in the study of Gospel traditions and the origins of the Gospels. ![]() Richard Bauckham is the author of Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, which is now available in an expanded second edition. ![]()
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