Adrian Holloway tackles the question of whether we can trust what we read in the New Testament or should dismiss it as unsubstantiated myth.

The way the Gospel accounts use correct place names shows that they were based on reliable information from first hand testimony.

This video considers how long it took before Jesus's first followers came to believe that he was the Son of God.

Did the early Christian communities apply Jesus's teaching to the problems they faced or alter the facts to fit their agendas?

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 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…

How many hand-written copies of the Gospel accounts are there? What does this reveal about possible mistakes?

Are the Gospels full of contradictions? What would have been seen as normal standards of trustworthy historical writing at that time?