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Bart D. Ehrman
Author · 42 books

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. He came to UNC in 1988, after four years of teaching at Rutgers University. At UNC he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. A graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois), Professor Ehrman received both his Masters of Divinity and PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary, where his 1985 doctoral dissertation was awarded magna cum laude. Since then he has published extensively in the fields of New Testament and Early Christianity, having written or edited 21 books, numerous scholarly articles, and dozens of book reviews. Among his most recent books are a Greek-English edition of The Apostolic Fathers for the Loeb Classical Library (Harvard University Press), an assessment of the newly discovered Gospel of Judas (Oxford University Press), and two New York Times bestsellers: God’s Problem (an assessment of the biblical views of suffering) and Misquoting Jesus (an overview of the changes found in the surviving copies of the New Testament and of the scribes who produced them). Among his fields of scholarly expertise are the historical Jesus, the early Christian apocrypha, the apostolic fathers, and the manuscript tradition of the New Testament. Professor Ehrman has served as President of the Southeast Region of the Society of Biblical literature, chair of the New Testament textual criticism section of the Society, book review editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature, and editor of the monograph series The New Testament in the Greek Fathers (Scholars Press). He currently serves as coeditor of the series New Testament Tools, Studies, and Documents (E.J. Brill), coeditor in chief for the journal Vigiliae Christianae, and on several other editorial boards for journals and monographs in the field. Winner of numerous university awards and grants, Professor Ehrman is the recipient of the 1993 UNC Undergraduate Student Teaching Award, the 1994 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement, and the Bowman and Gordon Gray Award for excellence in teaching. Professor Ehrman has two children, a daughter, Kelly, and a son, Derek. He is married to Sarah Beckwith (PhD, King's College London), Marcello Lotti Professor of English at Duke University. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Series

Books

The Other Gospels book cover

The Other Gospels

Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament

2013

Armageddon book cover

Armageddon

What the Bible Really Says about the End

2023

The Apocryphal Gospels book cover

The Apocryphal Gospels

Texts and Translations

2011

From Jesus to Constantine book cover

From Jesus to Constantine

A History of Early Christianity

2004

Jesus Before the Gospels book cover

Jesus Before the Gospels

How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior

2016

Jesus book cover

Jesus

Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium

1999

The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture book cover

The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture

The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament

1993

The History of the Bible book cover

The History of the Bible

The Making of the New Testament Canon

2005

How Jesus Became God book cover

How Jesus Became God

The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

2014

God's Problem book cover

God's Problem

2008

Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code book cover

Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code

A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine

2004

Journeys to Heaven and Hell book cover

Journeys to Heaven and Hell

Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition

2022

Lost Christianities book cover

Lost Christianities

Christian Scriptures and the Battles Over Authentication

2002

The New Testament book cover

The New Testament

A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings

1996

Peter, Paul & Mary Magdalene book cover

Peter, Paul & Mary Magdalene

The Followers of Jesus in History & Legend

2006

Forged book cover

Forged

Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are

2011

Lost Scriptures book cover

Lost Scriptures

Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament

2003

The Apostolic Fathers, Volume 1 book cover

The Apostolic Fathers, Volume 1

100

Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 CE book cover

Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 CE

A Reader

2003

Forgery and Counter-forgery book cover

Forgery and Counter-forgery

2012

When Did Jesus Become God? book cover

When Did Jesus Become God?

A Christological Debate

2022

The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research book cover

The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research

Essays on the Status Quaestionis

1995

Did Jesus Exist? book cover

Did Jesus Exist?

The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth

2012

The Reliability of the New Testament book cover

The Reliability of the New Testament

Bart Ehrman and Daniel Wallace in Dialogue

2011

After the New Testament book cover

After the New Testament

1998

Misquoting Jesus book cover

Misquoting Jesus

The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

2005

Jesus, Interrupted book cover

Jesus, Interrupted

Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible

2009

After the New Testament book cover

After the New Testament

The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers

2005

The Bible book cover

The Bible

A Historical and Literary Introduction

2013

The New Testament book cover

The New Testament

2001

The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings book cover

The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings

A Reader

1997

The Greatest Controversies of Early Christian History book cover

The Greatest Controversies of Early Christian History

2013

Lost Christianities book cover

Lost Christianities

The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew

2002

How Jesus Became God book cover

How Jesus Became God

2014

The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot book cover

The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot

A New Look at Betrayer & Betrayed

2006

A Brief Introduction to the New Testament book cover

A Brief Introduction to the New Testament

2004

Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? book cover

Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus?

2020

The Apostolic Fathers, Vol. 2 book cover

The Apostolic Fathers, Vol. 2

Epistle of Barnabas/Papias & Quadratus/Epistle to Diognetus/The Shepherd of Hermas

150

The Historical Jesus book cover

The Historical Jesus

2000

The Triumph of Christianity book cover

The Triumph of Christianity

How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

2017

Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament book cover

Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament

2006

Heaven and Hell book cover

Heaven and Hell

A History of the Afterlife

2020

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