Peter Cresswell studied Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and went on to do a B.Phil. in Sociology at York University. In recent years, he has researched the origins of Christianity and its textual transmission.
He is the author of The Invention of Jesus: How the Church Rewrote the New Testament (Watkins 2013), The Lost Narrative of Jesus (JHP 2016) and Who was Cephas? (Blue Cedar 2022). His published articles include, ‘Another Scribe or Another Exemplar? Examining Textual Patterns in Codex Sinaiticus Matthew and Mark’, JGRCH, 2017, pp 111-18.