Richard Bauckham | |
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| Born | 22 September 1946 London, England |
| Title | Retired Professor of New Testament Studies and Bishop Wardlaw Professor in the University of St Andrews |
| Parent(s) | John Robert Bauckham (1911–1980) and Stephiana Lilham (Lilian) (1911–1998) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Clare College, University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | (1972) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Ridley Hall, Cambridge |
| Main interests | New Testament Christology and the Gospel of John |
| Notable works | Jesus and the Eyewitnesses |
Richard John Bauckham FRSE FBA[1] (/ˈbɔːkəm/; born 22 September 1946) is an English Anglican scholar in theology, historical theology and New Testament studies, specialising in New Testament Christology and the Gospel of John. He is a senior scholar at Ridley Hall, Cambridge.
Bauckham is a prolific author of books and journal articles. In 2006, Bauckham published his most widely-read work Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, a book that defends the historical reliability of the gospels. Bauckham argues that the synoptic gospels are based "quite closely" on the testimony of eyewitnesses, and the Gospel of John is written by an eyewitness. This opposes the view that the four gospels were written later and not via interviews with direct eyewitnesses, but were rather the result of a longer chain of transmission of stories of Jesus filtered through early Christian communities over time.
The book was well-received, earning the 2007 Christianity Today book award in biblical studies and the Michael Ramsey Prize in 2009. Bauckham updated and expanded the book to respond to critics in a second edition, published in 2017.
- ^ The cambridge university calendar : for the year, 1973-74. [London]: Cambridge University Press. 1974. p. 81. ISBN 0521203961. OCLC 650401611.