Jesus & The Ten Gospels

Jesus & The Ten Gospels

Some of the most widely published challenges to the Christian faith today have come in the publicity surrounding the “apocryphal” gospels not included in the Christian Bible. The idea that there is nothing particularly special about the four New Testament gospels has appeared in both the popular media and in biblical scholarship, from references to the Gospel of Philip in the Da Vinci Code, to the publication by the Harvard Theological Review of the so-called “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” fragment. The 2016 lectures discussed the relevance of these gospels outside of the Bible, comparing them with Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Dr Simon Gathercole

Dr Simon Gathercole is a Reader in New Testament at the University of Cambridge as well as being Fellow and Director of Studies in Theology with Fitzwilliam College.

Before his current position, Dr Gathercole studied in the Universities of Cambridge and Durham, as well as for short periods at the University of Tübingen and the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. He taught in the University of Aberdeen for seven years and was the editor of Journal for the Study of the New Testament from 2007-12.

Dr Gathercole's main academic interest is the interpretation of the New Testament. Having begun as a classicist he also worked in the field of early Judaism, being particularly fascinated by the connections between the New Testament and the literature contemporaneous with it. His principal theological interests are christology, and the doctrine of the atonement.

Lecture 1: What Ten Gospels say about Jesus' Death & Resurrection |

Lecture 2: What Ten Gospels say about Jesus the Jewish Messiah |