Were the Gospel accounts based on the testimony of eyewitnesses who were still alive when the Gospels were written?

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…

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?

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

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

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

In this video, Richard Bauckham considers whether we can know who were the main witnesses behind the Gospel accounts of Jesus's life.