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

How big are the differences between the hand-written copies of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus? Do these undermine what we can know about…

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

Do the Gospels give us any indication that they are using eyewitness testimony? Richard Bauckham examines some of the minor characters in…

The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.

This video describes the discovery of the earliest copy of part of John's Gospel, the 'John Rylands Fragment'.

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

This video considers whether we can dismiss the accounts of Jesus's life simply because they describe miracles.

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