Origin of Christianity

Origin of Christianity is a compelling 10-episode series on the Christian faith viewed through the lens of history. The documentary series recounts the emergence of the religion between the years 30 AD and 150 AD.

More than twenty international specialists in Christian history and literature examine the surviving New Testament texts that bore witness to the birth of this religion, primarily the Epistles of the Apostle Paul and the Book of Acts. Examination of these sacred texts is intercut with contemporary research regarding the origins of the Christian movement.

This riveting examination of the era takes the form of an international symposium that begins with the death of Jesus and follows the division of Christianity and Judaism. Experts including Pierre Geoltrain in Paris, who specializes in the history of Christianity and Moshe David Herr, a professor of Jewish History at the University of Jerusalem, Graham Stanton of the University of Cambridge, who is currently investigating the martyr Justin and the first fathers of the church to Francois Bovon of Harvard, a specialist on the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, make up only a partial list of international scholars who offer their penetrating insights on the New Testament.