How Many Copies of the Gospels?
How many hand-written copies of the Gospel accounts are there? What does this reveal about possible mistakes?
Related resources for Bible and Church Conference: the reliability of the NT
How many hand-written copies of the Gospel accounts are there? What does this reveal about possible mistakes?
An overview article linking to specific resources that examine the historical reliability of the Old and New Testaments.
Larry Hurtado's book 'Destroyer of the Gods' examines the characteristics of Christianity that set it apart from the Roman world.
A popular story gives a salutary warning of the need to check our sources carefully and be careful in the arguments we use.
Some reflections on why the canonical Gospels are in the Bible whereas the apocryphal Gospels are not.
Read this book if you want to be prepared to speak to anyone interested in why they can trust the accounts they read in the Gospels. And…
What does the biblical account say about the star of Bethlehem? Is it historically credible?
Professor Alan Millard critiques the BBC series The Bible's Buried Secrets. Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou presented three BBC TV programmes…
Why does Derren Brown believe that 'the Bible is not history'? A consideration of his journey from faith to scepticism.