In Response to My Respondents: Jesus and the Eyewitnesses in Review

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-253
Author(s):  
Richard Bauckham
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Eyewitness Testimony ◽  
Beloved Disciple

AbstractThis response replies individually to each of the responses by Samuel yrskog, David Catchpole, Howard Marshall, Stephen Patterson and Theodore Weeden who have written reviews of Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. Important issues discussed include: names as indications of eyewitness sources, variations between the Gospels, the identity of the Beloved Disciple, models of oral tradition, and Mark as a Petrine Gospel.

Can You Trust a Gospel? A Review of Richard Bauckham's Jesus and the Eyewitnesses

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-210
Author(s):  
Stephen Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Eyewitness Testimony ◽  
First Person ◽  
Witness Testimony ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Written Sources ◽  
Beloved Disciple

AbstractIn spite of the fact that Richard Bauckham has produced a very learned and well-stated argument, his case for the Gospels as eye-witness testimony is unconvincing. If one assumes the two-source hypothesis, as Bauckham does, there is no point in arguing over Matthew and Luke: their sources (Mark and Q) are clear, and clearly not living eye-witnesses but written sources. Bauckham's arguments that would convince one that at least Mark and John rely upon eye-witnesses ultimately succumb to strong counter indications. The pattern of naming names in the synoptics offers no peculiarities necessitating Bauckham's assertion that they are actually the names of eye-witnesses. The theory of an inclusio of eyewitness testimony falters against the fact that Bauckham's eyewitnesses (Peter for Mark and the Beloved Disciple for John) are not actually present for the crucial events they are to have witnessed. And the shift from plural to singular third person voices would be more convincing if any of our Gospels used a consistent first person voice, singular or plural. Finally, Bauckham's appeal to Gerhardsson's model of a Jerusalem school from which Paul learned to memorize Jesus traditions exposes him to all the objections raised against that earlier argument, for which Bauckham offers no remedy.

A New Consensus on Oral Tradition? A Review of Richard Bauckham's Jesus and the Eyewitnesses

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-193
Author(s):  
Howard Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Eyewitness Testimony ◽  
Synoptic Gospels ◽  
Similar Treatment ◽  
Actual Material ◽  
The Way

AbstractBauckham's monograph is warmly welcomed for the way in which it synthesizes recent work on oral tradition and makes a fresh contribution to the debate. His proposal for giving a fuller role to eyewitnesses is assessed over against the view of D.E. Nineham. The need to demonstrate that it gives a better understanding of the actual material in the Synoptic Gospels is partly met by the detailed complementary work of J.D.G. Dunn. We need a similar treatment of the material in John to see whether Bauckham does better justice to the text than the approach of A.T. Lincoln. Nevertheless, Bauckham's thesis is well-defended and should lay to rest any lingering doubts about the way in which eyewitness testimony controlled the material recorded in the Gospels.

On the "general acceptance" of eyewitness testimony research: A new survey of the experts.

2001 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 405-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saul M. Kassin ◽  
V. Anne Tubb ◽  
Harmon M. Hosch ◽  
Amina Memon
Keyword(s):  
Eyewitness Testimony ◽  
General Acceptance

Manipulation of Response Rate and Status in Eyewitness Testimony

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dannie Sue Mezei ◽  
Frederick G. Grieve ◽  
Kristie Moore ◽  
Julie George
Keyword(s):  
Response Rate ◽  
Eyewitness Testimony

Habermas, Cultural Hegemony, and the Educational Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Arabic Speaking

This study explores Habermas’s work in terms of the relevance of his theory of the public sphere to the politics and poetics of the Arab oral tradition and its pedagogical practices. In what ways and forms does Arab heritage inform a public sphere of resistance or dissent? How does Habermas’s notion of the public space help or hinder a better understanding of the Arab oral tradition within the sociopolitical and educational landscape of the Arabic-speaking world? This study also explores the pedagogical implications of teaching Arab orality within the context of the public sphere as a contested site that informs a mode of resistance against social inequality and sociopolitical exclusions.

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