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

Once we've got at the facts behind the myths about Jesus, this final video considers what difference he makes to us today.

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?

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'.

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