Was Jesus a Real Person?
This video examines the historical evidence for the life of Jesus, including discussion of the non-biblical evidence.
This video examines the historical evidence for the life of Jesus, including discussion of the non-biblical evidence.
How many hand-written copies of the Gospel accounts are there? What does this reveal about possible mistakes?
This video examines the historical evidence that Jesus performed miracles.
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?
In this video, Richard Bauckham considers whether we can know who were the main witnesses behind the Gospel accounts of Jesus's life.
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…
This video considers whether we can dismiss the accounts of Jesus's life simply because they describe miracles.
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?
Can we know who wrote the Gospels? This video examines whether there is any evidence to support the traditional authors.
Do the Gospels give us any indication that they are using eyewitness testimony? Richard Bauckham examines some of the minor characters in…
The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.
Were the Gospel accounts corrupted as they were passed on? Was there any way to prevent this happening?
Can we be confident that we have the original text of the Gospels? How does it compare to other ancient documents?
Once we've got at the facts behind the myths about Jesus, this final video considers what difference he makes to us today.
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 correct place names shows that they were based on reliable information from first hand testimony.
This video considers how long it took before Jesus's first followers came to believe that he was the Son of God.