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'.

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

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?

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

Can we know who wrote the Gospels? This video examines whether there is any evidence to support the traditional authors.

Were the Gospel accounts corrupted as they were passed on? Was there any way to prevent this happening?

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

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