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.
How big are the differences between the hand-written copies of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus? Do these undermine what we can know about…
This video examines the historical evidence that Jesus performed miracles.
This video considers whether we can dismiss the accounts of Jesus's life simply because they describe miracles.
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Links to further resources to follow up on the bethinking booklet which asks why the events of the first Christmas show us what God is like.
Did Jesus claim or imply that he was anything more than a prophet? Or did his followers transform him into the Son of God many years later?
In this video, Richard Bauckham considers whether we can know who were the main witnesses behind the Gospel accounts of Jesus's life.
This video describes the discovery of the earliest copy of part of John's Gospel, the 'John Rylands Fragment'.