
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
Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament
2013

Armageddon
What the Bible Really Says about the End
2023

The Apocryphal Gospels
Texts and Translations
2011

From Jesus to Constantine
A History of Early Christianity
2004

Jesus Before the Gospels
How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
2016

Jesus
Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
1999

The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture
The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament
1993

The History of the Bible
The Making of the New Testament Canon
2005

How Jesus Became God
The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
2014

God's Problem
2008

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
Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition
2022

Lost Christianities
Christian Scriptures and the Battles Over Authentication
2002

The New Testament
A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings
1996

Peter, Paul & Mary Magdalene
The Followers of Jesus in History & Legend
2006

Forged
Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
2011

Lost Scriptures
Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament
2003

The Apostolic Fathers, Volume 1
100

Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 CE
A Reader
2003

Forgery and Counter-forgery
2012

When Did Jesus Become God?
A Christological Debate
2022

The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research
Essays on the Status Quaestionis
1995

Did Jesus Exist?
The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
2012

The Reliability of the New Testament
Bart Ehrman and Daniel Wallace in Dialogue
2011

After the New Testament
1998

Misquoting Jesus
The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
2005

Jesus, Interrupted
Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible
2009

After the New Testament
The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers
2005

The Bible
A Historical and Literary Introduction
2013

The New Testament
2001

The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings
A Reader
1997

The Greatest Controversies of Early Christian History
2013

Lost Christianities
The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
2002

How Jesus Became God
2014

The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot
A New Look at Betrayer & Betrayed
2006

A Brief Introduction to the New Testament
2004

Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus?
2020

The Apostolic Fathers, Vol. 2
Epistle of Barnabas/Papias & Quadratus/Epistle to Diognetus/The Shepherd of Hermas
150

The Historical Jesus
2000

The Triumph of Christianity
How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
2017

Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
2006

Heaven and Hell
A History of the Afterlife
2020