Real People in the Gospels
The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.
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The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.
The way the Gospel accounts use correct place names shows that they were based on reliable information from first hand testimony.
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Were the Gospel accounts corrupted as they were passed on? Was there any way to prevent this happening?
Richard Bauckham and James Crossley discuss Bauckham's book 'Jesus and the Eyewitnesses' and consider its implications, on Justin…
A brief account of some of the real history and real people to be found in the New Testament.
Adrian Holloway tackles the question of whether we can trust what we read in the New Testament or should dismiss it as unsubstantiated myth.
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How big are the differences between the hand-written copies of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus? Do these undermine what we can know about…