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From Jesus to Constantine
A History of Early Christianity
2004
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  1. The Birth of Christianity
  2. The Religious World of Early Christianity
  3. The Historical Jesus
  4. Oral and Written Traditions about Jesus
  5. The Apostle Paul
  6. The Beginning of Jewish-Christian Relations
  7. The Anti-Jewish Use of the Old Testament
  8. The Rise of Christian Anti-Judaism
  9. The Early Christian Mission
  10. The Christianization of the Roman Empire
  11. The Early Persecutions of the State
  12. The Causes of Christian Persecution
  13. Christian Reactions to Persecution
  14. The Early Christian Apologists
  15. The Diversity of Early Christian Communities
  16. Christianities of the Second Century
  17. The Role of Pseudepigrapha
  18. The Victory of the Proto-Orthodox
  19. The New Testament Canon
  20. The Development of Church Offices
  21. The Rise of Christian Liturgy
  22. The Beginnings of Normative Theology
  23. The Doctrine of the Trinity
  24. Christianity and the Conquest of Empire
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Bart D. Ehrman
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.

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