Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony

A groundbreaking work in New Testament studies expanded and updated

Winner of the 2007 Christianity Today Book Award in Biblical Studies, this momentous volume argues that the four Gospels are closely based on the eyewitness testimony of those who personally knew Jesus. Noted New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption that the Jesus accounts circulated as "anonymous community traditions," asserting instead that they were transmitted in the names of the original eyewitnesses.

In this expanded second edition Bauckham is adding a new preface, three substantial new chapters that respond to critics and clarify key points of his argument, and a comprehensive new bibliography.

• The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Vol. 3)
• An Introduction to Early Judaism
• Jesus: A Very Short Introduction
• The New Testament and the People of God
• The Cambridge Companion to Jesus (Cambridge Companions to Religion)
• The Historical Reliability of the Gospels
• The Historical Reliability of the New Testament: Countering the Challenges to Evangelical Christian Beliefs (B&h Studies in Christian Apologetics)
• Jesus and the God of Israel: God Crucified and Other Studies on the New Testament's Christology of Divine Identity
• Christianity at the Crossroads: How the Second Century Shaped the Future of the Church
• Jesus and the Victory of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Volume 2)