Messiah: Jesus, the evidence of history
What historical evidence is there for the life of Jesus and the first Christians?
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What historical evidence is there for the life of Jesus and the first Christians?
Why the so-called "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" is a modern forgery.
Adrian Holloway tackles the question of whether we can trust what we read in the New Testament or should dismiss it as unsubstantiated myth.
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.
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 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.
How big are the differences between the hand-written copies of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus? Do these undermine what we can know about…