Richard Bauckham

Richard J. Bauckham, FBA, FRSE (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.

In 2006, Bauckham published Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, described by many scholars as a paradigm shift in Gospels study. In this book, Bauckham argues, against the current consensus, that the Synoptic Gospels are based "quite closely" on the testimony of eyewitnesses, while the Gospel of John is written by an eyewitness. (The current scholarly consensus is precisely the other way around, namely that the Synoptic Gospels are closer to the eyewitnesses and John further removed. See also Historicity of Jesus and Historical reliability of the Gospels.)

He is a senior scholar at Ridley Hall, Cambridge.

Bauckham was born in London and studied at the University of Cambridge, where he read history at Clare College (1966–72) and was a fellow of St John's College (1972–75). He taught theology for one year at the University of Leeds and for fifteen years at the University of Manchester (1977–1992), where he was the Lecturer in the History of Christian Thought before moving to St Andrews in 1992. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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