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Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Preface Abbreviations Chapter 1. - From the Historical Jesus to the Jesus of Testimony The Historical Quest and Christian Faith Introducing the Key Category: Eyewitness Testimony Samuel Byrskog and the Eyewitnesses Chapter 2. - Papias on the Eyewitnesses Papias and His Book Papias on the Eyewitnesses “A Living and Surviving Voice” Oral Tradition or Oral History? Chapter 3. - Names in the Gospel Traditions Names in the Gospels The Women at the Cross and the Tomb Simon of Cyrene and His Sons Recipients of Healing Vivid Detail of Eyewitness Recollections? Chapter 4. - Palestinian Jewish Names A New Resource for Study of the Gospels On Counting Names The Relative Popularity of Names Why Were Some Names So Popular? How to Tell Simon from Simon Conclusion Chapter 5. - The Twelve The Significance of the Twelve The Lists of the Twelve Differences among the Lists of the Twelve Names and Epithets of the Twelve A Note on Matthew and Levi Chapter 6. - Eyewitnesses “from the Beginning” “From the Beginning” The Preface to Luke’s Gospel The Inclusio of Eyewitness Testimony in Mark The Inclusio of Eyewitness Testimony in John Luke’s Inclusio of the Women The Inclusio of Eyewitness Testimony in Lucian’s Alexander Conclusion Chapter 7. - The Petrine Perspective in the Gospel of Mark The Plural-to-Singular Narrative Device The Role of Peter in Mark The Characterization of Peter in Mark Conclusion Chapter 8. - Anonymous Persons in Mark’s Passion Narrative Theissen on Protective Anonymity Anonymous Supporters of Jesus The Woman Who Anointed the Messiah The Anonymous in Mark Are Named in John Once Again: The Naked Youth Chapter 9. - Papias on Mark and Matthew Mark as Peter’s Interpreter Everything Peter Remembered Peter’s Anecdotes Mark’s Lack of Order Mark, Matthew, and John Is Mark’s Gospel Really “Not in Order”? Mark as Peter’s Gospel A Petrine Gospel? Chapter 10. - Models of Oral Tradition Form Criticism Criticisms of Form Criticism The Scandinavian Alternative A Middle Way? Problems with the Threefold Typology Bailey and Dunn on the Eyewitnesses Chapter 11. - Transmitting the Jesus Traditions Pauline Evidence for Formal Transmission Remembering the Past of Jesus An “Isolated” Tradition Controlling the Tradition: Memorization Controlling the Tradition: Writing? Chapter 12. - Anonymous Tradition or Eyewitness Testimony? Communities or Individuals? Anonymous Gospels? Controlling the Tradition: Eyewitnesses and Gospels Individual and Collective Memories Chapter 13. - Eyewitness Memory When Rossini Met Beethoven The Case of the Rotting Fisherman Recollective Memory Copies or (Re)constructions? The Reliability of Recollective Memory Schematization, Narrativization, and Meaning Fact and Meaning, Past and Present Remembering Jesus Schematization, Narrativization, and Meaning Fact and Meaning, Past and Present A Note on Eyewitness Testimony in Court Chapter 14. - The Gospel of John as Eyewitness Testimony The Beloved Disciple “Wrote These Things” The End of the Gospel Who Are the “We” of 21:24? The “We” of Authoritative Testimony A Prophetic Precedent for the “We” of Authoritative Testimony Chapter 15. - The Witness of the Beloved Disciple What Sort of Witness? The Beloved Disciple among the Witnesses in God’s Lawsuit A Comparison with Luke-Acts The Inclusio of Eyewitness Testimony The Beloved Disciple as Ideal Witness and Author The Beloved Disciple and the Other Disciples The Meaning of Eyewitness “Seeing” Why Is the Beloved Disciple’s Role as Principal Witness and Author Not Revealed ... Authentic or Pseudepigraphal? The Eyewitness as Historian Conclusion Chapter 16. - Papias on John The Identity of the Beloved Disciple One More Time — Papias on the Eyewitnesses John the Elder — the Long-Lived Disciple of Jesus Papias on the Gospel of John Evidence in the Muratorian Canon for Papias on John Appendix: Papias as Eusebius’s Source in Hist. Eccl. 3.24.5-13? Chapter 17. - Polycrates and Irenaeus on John Polycrates on John John as a Jewish High Priest? Irenaeus on John Was the Author of John’s Gospel John the Son of Zebedee? Identification of the Author of John’s Gospel with John the Son of Zebedee Chapter 18. - The Jesus of Testimony What Is Testimony and Can We Rely on It? Testimony and History Ricoeur on Testimony and History Testimony and Its Reception Holocaust Testimonies Holocaust Testimony and Gospel Testimony Testimonial Form Testimony as Historical and Theological Category Index of Ancient Persons Index of Modern Authors Index of Places Index of Scriptures and Other Ancient Writings © 2006 Richard Bauckham All rights reserved Published 2006 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 2140 Oak Industrial Drive N.E., Grand Rapids, Michigan 49505 / P.O. Box 163, Cambridge CB3 9PU U.K. Printed in the United States of America 11 10 09 08 07 06 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bauckham, Richard. Jesus and the eyewitnesses: the Gospels as eyewitness testimony / Richard Bauckham. p. cm. ISBN-10: 0-8028-3162-1 / ISBN-13: 978-0-8028-3162-0 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Jesus Christ — Historicity. 2. Bible. N.T. Gospels — Evidences, authority, etc. I. Title. BT303.2.B36 2006 226’.067 — dc22 2006016806 www.eerdmans.com To all my colleagues, past and present, in St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews Preface Some of the material in this book was first presented as lectures that I was invited to give in three institutions in the U.S.: the fourteenth Annual Biblical Studies Lectures, 2003, at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama; the Payton Lectures, 2003, at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California; and the Derward W. Deere Lectures, 2004, at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Mill Valley, California. I am grateful to these institutions for inviting me and to many people, staff and students, who made valuable comments on the lectures and who helped to make my visits a great pleasure. Much of this book was written during a gradual recuperation from prolonged illness. I believe it could not have been written without the prayers of many who supported me during that period, or without — to use Paul’s phrase (2 Cor 12:9) — God’s grace working as power in weakness. RICHARD BAUCKHAM
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