![]() ![]() You see, the term “testimony” of course implies that we can’t actually verify independently everything that the witness says. ![]() And that I think is one of the most important historical methods of confirming testimony. So that’s one way of verifying that the Gospels are credible from that geographical-historical context that they claim to be about. The gospels are actually full of all kinds of little detail about people and places, and all kinds of stuff about the historical context in which the stories take place. Not long after Jesus and the Eyewitnesses was first released, we had the opportunity to interview Bauckham on White Horse Inn and in that conversation, he laid out his overall approach: ![]() In his foreword to this second edition, Cambridge scholar Simon Gathercole acknowledges the importance of Bauckham’s original work in the world of New Testament scholar-ship: “Whenever I have been asked over the past ten years what the most significant recent books in my discipline are, I have invariably made mention of this book” (xi). Last spring, Eerdmans released a new edition with three completely new chapters, a new preface and an updated bibliography. It has been over a decade since Richard Bauckham’s critically acclaimed book Jesus and the Eyewitnesses was first published. ![]()
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