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Introduction of the names-in-the-Gospels phenomenon as historical evidence

The Gospels Are History Not Myth 00:36:22 – 00:37:25

Third major line of evidence: the pattern of named vs. unnamed individuals in the Gospels.

The Gospels sometimes name healing recipients and witnesses (e.g., blind Bartimaeus) and sometimes do not. Bauckham proposes a theory explaining this pattern as evidence of eyewitness sourcing rather than legendary accretion.

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