
The Gospels and the 'so-called' gospels
A discussion of Christian beliefs about the divinity of Jesus and why the New Testament did not include other 'gospels'.
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A discussion of Christian beliefs about the divinity of Jesus and why the New Testament did not include other 'gospels'.
Why the so-called "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" is a modern forgery.
A popular story gives a salutary warning of the need to check our sources carefully and be careful in the arguments we use.
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?
In this video, Richard Bauckham considers whether we can know who were the main witnesses behind the Gospel accounts of Jesus's life.
The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.
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'.