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'.

Can we be confident that we have the original text of the Gospels? How does it compare to other ancient documents?

There are many different views of Jesus. What's the truth?

Is Christmas just a nice story 'for the children' or an historical fact that affects us all?

Dr John Dickson describes the key sources for our knowledge of the life of Jesus, assessing them from the perspective of an historian.

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

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

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