How Were the New Testament Books Compiled?
Are the New Testament books an arbitrary or personal selection of what was available? Or is there more to it than that?
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Are the New Testament books an arbitrary or personal selection of what was available? Or is there more to it than that?
In this video, Richard Bauckham considers whether we can know who were the main witnesses behind the Gospel accounts of Jesus's life.
Were the Gospel accounts based on the testimony of eyewitnesses who were still alive when the Gospels were written?
The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.
This video describes the discovery of the earliest copy of part of John's Gospel, the 'John Rylands Fragment'.
Were the Gospel accounts corrupted as they were passed on? Was there any way to prevent this happening?
How big are the differences between the hand-written copies of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus? Do these undermine what we can know about…
Can we be confident that we have the original text of the Gospels? How does it compare to other ancient documents?
An overview article linking to specific resources that examine the historical reliability of the Old and New Testaments.