Are There Contradictions in the Gospels?
Are the Gospels full of contradictions? What would have been seen as normal standards of trustworthy historical writing at that time?
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?
This video describes the discovery of the earliest copy of part of John's Gospel, the 'John Rylands Fragment'.
How big are the differences between the hand-written copies of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus? Do these undermine what we can know about…
Once we've got at the facts behind the myths about Jesus, this final video considers what difference he makes to us today.
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 examines the historical evidence that Jesus performed miracles.
Were the Gospel accounts corrupted as they were passed on? Was there any way to prevent this happening?
Can we be confident that we have the original text of the Gospels? How does it compare to other ancient documents?