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THE CHRIST FILES

The Christ Files Documentary

Ritual baths at Qumran (Dead Sea) A donkey ride down the Mount of Olives A thousand year old manuscript of Josephus’ Jewish Antiquities (Cambridge) The Western (or Wailing) Wall of Jerusalem The town of Gamla in Galilee Sephoris with Nazareth in background A first century house in Capernaum (Galilee)
Prof James Charlesworth (Princeton) The earliest copy of Paul’s letter to the Corinthians (Dublin) A page of the Coptic Gospel of Philip (Cairo) Recently discovered (2004) Pool of Siloam (Jerusalem) Ruins of the Second Temple (Jerusalem) Prof Martin Hengel (Tubingen) Prof Geza Vermes (Oxford)

The Christ Files, is a full-scale historical documentary based on the book of the same name by Dr. John Dickson,
Director of the Centre for Public Christianity and Honorary Associate of the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University, Australia.

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Airing nationally in Australia on March 21 (Channel 7). DVD available Easter weekend 2008.

Shot in seven countries the documentary reveals the earliest and most important manuscript evidence for Jesus of Nazareth, including the writings of Josephus, Mara bar Serapion, the apostle Paul and the controversial Gnostic Gospels. Interviews with a dozen of the world’s leading New Testament historians and access to some of Israel’s most important archaeological sites give this work a unique authority.

Neither a work of fanciful scepticism nor of Christian propaganda The Christ Files provides viewers with front row seats to the facts behind the Western world’s most influential story.

More excepts from ‘The Christ Files’…

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The Gnostic Gospels in the Coptic Museum of Cairo


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The evidence of Tacitus and Pliny


Scholars interviewed in the documentary:
Professor Richard Bauckham,
St Andrew’s University (Scotland), on the Gospels and eyewitness testimony
Professor Marcus Bockmuehl,
St Andrew’s University, on Gnosticism and the Gnostic Gospels
Professor James Charlesworth,
Princeton University, on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Jesus
Professor James Dunn,
Durham University, on how ancient societies preserved traditions aurally
Professor Sean Freyne,
Trinity College Dublin, on the archaeology of Galilee (on location)
Professor Martin Hengel,
University of Tubingen (Germany), on the historical value of the Gospels
Professor Alanna Nobbs,
Macquarie University (Australia), on the Graeco-Roman sources for studying Jesus
Dr. Adolfo Roitmann,
Shrine of the Book Museum (Jerusalem), on the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Professor Peter Stuhlmacher,
University of Tubingen, on the value of Paul’s epistles for the study of the historical Jesus
Professor Christopher Tuckett,
Oxford University, on the sources behind the Gospels (e.g., Q)
Right Reverend Dr. Tom Wright,
Bishop of Durham, on the importance of the Tanakh (Old Testament) for interpreting the historical Jesus

For more information, see the official Christ Files site: www.thechristfiles.com.au

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