Richard Bauckham

Richard Bauckham is a British scholar of the New Testament and early Judaism. He was Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of St Andrews from 1992 until he retired in 2007 to concentrate on research and writing.

His best-known book, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses (2006), argues that the gospels rest on eyewitness testimony; it won the Michael Ramsey Prize. He has also written widely on Jewish apocalyptic texts and their reception by early Christians, including a commentary on Jude and 2 Peter and two books on the Book of Revelation (1993).

The Letter of Jude quotes 1 Enoch directly, and Bauckham has written in detail on how early Christians used Enochic material. In Jude and the Relatives of Jesus in the Early Church he pointed out that the genealogy of Jesus in Luke 3 lists 77 names from God to Jesus with Enoch seventh, so that Jesus arrives seventy generations after Enoch. In 1 Enoch 10, the fallen Watchers are bound for seventy generations, so the pattern may be deliberate; this is an interpretation, not something Luke states.