Who Wrote the New Testament

'What is Truth?' looks at the most famous quartet in history - Matthew, Mark, Luke & John. Were they the men who wrote the four gospels, who were they, why did they write them and when?

We examine the letters of Jesus' brothers, James and Jude, and look at how the Jewish movement in Jerusalem led by James, eventually clashed with Paul's view of Christ. We look at Paul's conversion, and how, through his subsequent correspondences with the churches of the Mediterranean, Christianity spread out of its homeland and become a growing international movement.

This episode looks at how heresy emerged, the literature that was produced and the dangers they posed to the early the church. Few had heard on the fifty 'other' gospels that circulated and then there were the countless letters, some of them valid, others dangerously heretical. If these had made it into the New Testament, Christianity would be fundamentally different.