![]() ![]() He argued that the Gospels were written within “living memory” of Jesus’ life, and that they were either written by eyewitnesses or based on eyewitness accounts. Richard Bauckham’s landmark 2006 book, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses transformed how many scholars saw the Gospels. There can be good reasons for trusting or distrusting a witness…Gospels understood as testimony are the entirely appropriate means of access to the historical reality of Jesus.” Dr Richard Bauckham: Professor emeritus of New Testament studies at the University of St. ![]() This need not mean that it asks to be trusted uncritically, but it does mean that testimony should not be treated as credible only to the extent that it can be independently verified. An irreducible feature of testimony as a form of human utterance is that it asks to be trusted. It means that the kind of historiography they are is testimony. This does not mean that they are testimony rather than history. ![]() “I suggest that we need to recover the sense in which the Gospels are testimony. ![]() The entire bibliography for this series can be found here. This is the second part of an article series entitled: Are the Gospels Reliable Sources. ![]()
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