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 BauckhamFRSE 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 is against the predominant 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.
Richard John Bauckham FRSE FBA (/ˈbɔːkəm/; born 22 September 1946) is an English Anglican scholar in theology, historical theology and New Testament studies...
(2007) ISBN 082543307X p. 119 RichardBauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses (Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2006), pp. 53–54 RichardBauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses...
Eyewitness Testimony is a book written by biblical scholar and theologian RichardBauckham and published in 2006 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans). The book challenges...
implies it must have been in existence by around 150 AD. The scholar RichardBauckham argues for more precisely dating the composition to the Bar Kokhba...
their apostolic founder. Conservative Christian scholars, such as RichardBauckham, hold that James and his circle in the early Jerusalem church held...
defended the authorship of the brother of James as plausible include RichardBauckham. A reason to doubt that a relative of Jesus wrote the book is that...
story.' RichardBauckham, The fate of the dead: studies on the Jewish and Christian apocalypses (Netherlands: Brill, 1998), p. 101 RichardBauckham, The...
Club, which includes Martin Hengel, Larry Hurtado, N. T. Wright, and RichardBauckham, this "incarnation Christology" or "high Christology" did not evolve...
ISBN 9789053565032. Bauckham, Richard (2002). Gospel Women: Studies of the Named Women in the Gospels. Eerdmans. ISBN 9780802849991. Bauckham, Richard (2008). "The...
Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, Volume 1; ed.s RichardBauckham, James R. Davila, Alexander Panayotov; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing,...
brought on by Anglican biblical scholar RichardBauckham in his book Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, where Bauckham argued that the Gospel of John was actually...
Writings. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 432. ISBN 0-19-515462-2. RichardBauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses (William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2006)...
"concerning these". This is noted as "an odd use of the dative" by RichardBauckham. “Prophesied” means that Jude is not simply quoting an historical fact...
with any known version of the Jewish scriptures. Recent arguments by RichardBauckham and others that the Gospel of John preserves eyewitness testimony have...
children of Joseph's first marriage. According to Protestant scholar RichardBauckham, these works "show no signs of literary relationship" and probably...
RichardBauckham states that although a few scholars have questioned this passage, "the vast majority have considered it to be authentic" (Bauckham 1999...
of 'virtuoso religion' in ascetic communities. The British scholar RichardBauckham reaches the similar conclusion that the beloved disciple, who also...
in Old Testament Pseudepigrapha ed. Charlesworth, Doubleday 1983–85 RichardBauckham Jude and the relatives of Jesus in the early church p206 etc. Ben Witherington...
works on the matter were published by Dale Allison, Bart D. Ehrman, RichardBauckham and Maurice Casey. The earliest New Testament texts which refer to...
Stott: 320 John Wenham Michael Green Philip Edgecumbe Hughes Roger Forster RichardBauckham Basil F. C. Atkinson Ian Howard Marshall Anthony Buzzard New Zealanders...
Mitchell & Young 2006, p. 297. Painter 2004, p. 126. Bauckham 1999, pp. 199–203. RichardBauckham states that although a few scholars have questioned this...
Club, which includes Martin Hengel, Larry Hurtado, N. T. Wright, and RichardBauckham, this "incarnation Christology" or "high Christology" did not evolve...
Gregory the Great was opposed to the belief of universalism. Scholar RichardBauckham stated that while universalism appeared "discredited" because of scholarly...
Anthony Meynell, Timothy J. Keller, Francis Collins, Vishal Mangalwadi, RichardBauckham, Craig Evans, Darrell Bock, Frank Turek, John F. MacArthur, R.C. Sproul...
33:2 as referring to the eschatological theophany of God as judge." RichardBauckham, The Jewish world around the New Testament: collected essays. 1999...
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