![]() ![]() Thus they would have functioned as guarantors of the events of the life of Jesus even for far-flung Christian communities. We know from the rest of the New Testament that early Christian leaders like Peter and John travelled widely. In fact, the eyewitnesses themselves would have been the ones normally telling the events of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. ![]() If someone had incorrectly told a story about Jesus, the eyewitnesses would have been present in the community to set the record straight. “The Gospels were written within living memory of the events they recount” (7).įrom that premise, Bauckham argues that the eyewitnesses would have functioned as guarantors of the stories about Jesus that were circulating within the Christian communities. Even the Gospel of John, which most think was written in the 90s A.D., fits within a relatively long life span of an eyewitness. He starts with what all scholars, liberal or conservative, acknowledge: the canonical Gospels were not written hundreds of years after the events they portray. Richard Bauckham challenges this paradigm. ![]() Young people from our congregations who go to college may hear this paradigm of how the Gospels came to be. Many unbeliev ing scholars believe that the original stories about Jesus underwent changes and picked up fictional additions before they were finally written down in our canonical Gospels. ![]()
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