Babes in Bookland

Something light for a change, even trivial. I've been reading Richard Bauckham's Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: the Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2006). an interesting and possibly important scholarly attempt to reconstruct the role of eyewitnesses in the formation of the Jesus tradition. Bauckham tries to build a solid case that the four gospels rely more or