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.

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

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

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…

In the book The Da Vinci Code the author Dan Brown poses a question and suggests an answer, in a discussion between the characters of…