A popular story gives a salutary warning of the need to check our sources carefully and be careful in the arguments we use.

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

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?

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 correct place names shows that they were based on reliable information from first hand testimony.

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…

You may have seen the recent programme "The Beauty of Books: Ancient Bibles" on BBC4, 8th February 2011. This well-produced and researched…