Bart D. Ehrman is a New Testament Scholar and an expert on Early Christianity. He received his Ph.D & M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary where he studied under Bruce Metzger. He currently serves as the chairperson of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was the President of the Southeast Region of the Society of Biblical Literature, and worked closely as an editor on a number of the Society's publications. Currently, he co-edits the series New Testament Tools and Studies. See New Covenant for the concept translated as New Testament in the KJV. The New Testament, sometimes called the Greek Testament or Greek Scriptures, and, in recent times, also New Covenant, is the name given to the part of the Christian Bible that was written after the birth of Jesus. ... Scholarly method - or as it is more commonly called, scholarship - is the body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as valid and trustworthy as possible, and to make them known to the scholarly public. ... The Early Christians were the early followers of Jesus of Nazareth and his Twelve Apostles before the First Council of Nicaea in 325. ... Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. ... Master of Divinity is a common degree among theological seminaries and is considered the minimum academic requirement for ordination into pastoral ministry. ... The steeple of Alexander Hall Princeton Theological Seminary, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is one of the worlds leading institutions for graduate theological education and home of the largest theological library in the United States. ... Bruce Metzger pictured on the cover of his autobiography Reminiscences of an Octogenarian Bruce Manning Metzger (born 1914) is a professor emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary and Bible editor who serves on the board of the American Bible Society. ... Religious studies is the multi-disciplinary, secular study of religion. ... The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ... The Society of Biblical Literature is a constituent society of the American Council of Learned Societies with the stated mission to Foster Biblical Scholarship. Membership is open to the public, including 7200 individuals from over 80 countries. ...

Much of Ehrman's writing has concentrated on various aspects of Walter Bauer's thesis that Christianity was always diversified or at odds with itself. Ehrman is often considered a pioneer in connecting the History of the Early Church to textual variants within biblical manuscripts and to coin such terms as "Proto-Orthodox." In his writings, Ehrman has turned the tables of textual criticism. From the time of the Church Fathers, it was the heretics (Marcion, for example) that were charged with tampering with the biblical manuscripts. Ehrman theorizes that is was actually the Orthodox that "corrupted" the manuscripts. Walter Bauer (died 17 November 1960) was a scholar of the development of the early Christian churches. ... Textual criticism is a branch of philology that examines the extant manuscript copies of an ancient or medieval literary work to produce a text that is as close as possible to the original. ... The (Early) Church Fathers or Fathers of the Church are the early and influential theologians and writers in the Christian Church, particularly those of the first five centuries of Christian history. ... Marcion of Sinope (ca. ... The word orthodoxy, from the Greek ortho (right, correct) and doxa (thought, teaching , Glorification), is typically used to refer to the correct theological or doctrinal observance of religion, as determined by some overseeing body. ...

Although Ehrman has a strong background in Evangelical Christianity, having attending both Moody Bible Institute and Wheaton College (B.A., 1978), his personal beliefs have shifted over time. Ehrman now considers himself an agnostic. The word evangelicalism usually refers to a tendency in diverse branches of Protestantism, typified by an emphasis on evangelism, a personal experience of conversion, biblically-oriented faith, and a belief in the relevance of Christian faith to cultural issues. ... Moody Bible Institute is a prominent Christian institution for higher education. ... Wheaton College is a private, conservative evangelical Protestant liberal arts college located in Wheaton, Illinois. ... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... The term agnosticism and the related agnostic were coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869. ...

Ehrman has two children, a daughter, Kelly, and a son, Derek. He is currently married to Sarah Beckwith (Ph.D., King's College London) Marcello Lotti Professor of English at Duke University. Kings College London in London is the largest and second longest serving member college in the federal University of London, with 21,300 registered students (2003-04). ... Duke Chapel Duke University is a private, coeducational, research university located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Although founded in 1924, Duke traces its roots back to 1838. ...

Ehrman's scholarly output is extensive. He has authored or contributed to nineteen books.

Bibliography

• Ehrman, Bart (2006). Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend, Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0195300130.

• Ehrman, Bart (2005). Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, HarperSanFrancisco. ISBN 0060738170.

• Metzger, Bruce M.; Ehrman, Bart (2005). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0195166671.

• Ehrman, Bart (2004). Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine, Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0195181409.

• Ehrman, Bart (2004). A Brief Introduction to the New Testament, Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0195161238.

• Ehrman, Bart (2003). The Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0195141830.

• Ehrman, Bart (2003). The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0195154622.

• Ehrman, Bart; Jacobs, Andrew S. (2003). Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 C.E.: A Reader, Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0195154614.

• Ehrman, Bart (2003). The Apostolic Fathers: Volume II. Epistle of Barnabas. Papias and Quadratus. Epistle to Diognetus. The Shepherd of Hermas, Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674996089.

• Ehrman, Bart (2003). The Apostolic Fathers: Volume I. I Clement. II Clement. Ignatius. Polycarp. Didache, Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674996070.

• Ehrman, Bart (2003). The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings: A Reader, Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0195154649.

• Ehrman, Bart (2003). Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament, Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0195141822.

• Ehrman, Bart (1999). Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium, Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 019512474X.

• Ehrman, Bart (1998). After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity, Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0195114450.

• Ehrman, Bart (1996). The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament, Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0195102797.

• Ehrman, Bart (1987). Didymus the Blind and the Text of the Gospels (The New Testament in the Greek Fathers; No. 1), Society of Biblical Literature. ISBN 1555400841.

External links

• Homepage at UNC
• Neely Tucker. "The Book of Bart." The Washington Post, 2006. Profile of Bart Ehrman, focusing on his personal beliefs