
The Main Witnesses in the Gospels
In this video, Richard Bauckham considers whether we can know who were the main witnesses behind the Gospel accounts of Jesus's life.
Who was Jesus Christ? Did he really exist? Can we know what he did and taught? Explore the evidence that shows Jesus was a historical figure and find out why Christians believe he was fully man and fully God – and why it matters.
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.
How big are the differences between the hand-written copies of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus? Do these undermine what we can know about…
How many hand-written copies of the Gospel accounts are there? What does this reveal about possible mistakes?
This talk explains why the claim that Jesus was no more than a moral teacher doesn't account for the evidence about him.
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 corrupted as they were passed on? Was there any way to prevent this happening?
What does the oldest fragment of the New Testament tell us?