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Ehrman – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Bart D. Ehrman" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86" title="بارت ايرمان – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="بارت ايرمان" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_D._Ehrman" title="Bart D. Ehrman – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Bart D. 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Ehrman</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Bart-d-ehrman-2012-wikipedia.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Bart-d-ehrman-2012-wikipedia.jpg/220px-Bart-d-ehrman-2012-wikipedia.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="260" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Bart-d-ehrman-2012-wikipedia.jpg/330px-Bart-d-ehrman-2012-wikipedia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Bart-d-ehrman-2012-wikipedia.jpg/440px-Bart-d-ehrman-2012-wikipedia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1626" data-file-height="1920" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Ehrman in 2012</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Bart Denton Ehrman</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1955-10-05</span>) </span>October 5, 1955<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 69)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Lawrence,_Kansas" title="Lawrence, Kansas">Lawrence, Kansas</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Sarah Beckwith</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic background</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wheaton_College_(Illinois)" title="Wheaton College (Illinois)">Wheaton College</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Princeton_Theological_Seminary" title="Princeton Theological Seminary">Princeton Theological Seminary</a> (<a href="/wiki/MDiv" class="mw-redirect" title="MDiv">MDiv</a>, <a href="/wiki/PhD" class="mw-redirect" title="PhD">PhD</a>)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">Thesis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>The Gospel Text of Didymus</i> (1985)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Doctoral advisor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bruce_M._Metzger" title="Bruce M. Metzger">Bruce M. Metzger</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic work</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Discipline</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Biblical_studies" title="Biblical studies">Biblical studies</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rutgers_University" title="Rutgers University">Rutgers University</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill" title="University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Main interests</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd 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rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Jesus:_Apocalyptic_Prophet_of_the_New_Millennium" title="Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium">Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium</a></i> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Misquoting_Jesus" title="Misquoting Jesus">Misquoting Jesus</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jesus,_Interrupted" title="Jesus, Interrupted">Jesus, Interrupted</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Forged_(book)" title="Forged (book)">Forged</a></i> (2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/How_Jesus_Became_God" title="How Jesus Became God">How Jesus Became God</a></i> (2014)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Christianity" title="The Triumph of Christianity">The Triumph of Christianity</a></i> (2018)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Heaven_and_Hell:_A_History_of_the_Afterlife" title="Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife">Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife</a></i> (2020)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bartehrman.com">bartehrman<wbr />.com</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127876#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Bart Denton Ehrman</b><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (born October 5, 1955) is an American <a href="/wiki/Biblical_scholar" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblical scholar">New Testament scholar</a> focusing on <a href="/wiki/Textual_criticism_of_the_New_Testament" title="Textual criticism of the New Testament">textual criticism of the New Testament</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Historical_Jesus" title="Historical Jesus">historical Jesus</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/History_of_early_Christianity" class="mw-redirect" title="History of early Christianity">origins and development of early Christianity</a>. He has written and edited 30 books, including three college textbooks. He has also authored six <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" title="The New York Times Best Seller list"><i>New York Times</i> bestsellers</a>. He is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of <a href="/wiki/Religious_studies" title="Religious studies">Religious Studies</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill" title="University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart_D._Ehrman&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life">Early life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart_D._Ehrman&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On October 5, 1955, Ehrman was born in <a href="/wiki/Lawrence,_Kansas" title="Lawrence, Kansas">Lawrence, Kansas</a>, and subsequently grew up there before attending <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_High_School_(Kansas)" title="Lawrence High School (Kansas)">Lawrence High School</a>, where he was on the state champion debate team in 1973. He began studying the <a href="/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Bible</a>, <a href="/wiki/Biblical_theology" title="Biblical theology">biblical theology</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Biblical_languages" title="Biblical languages">biblical languages</a> at <a href="/wiki/Moody_Bible_Institute" title="Moody Bible Institute">Moody Bible Institute</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Wunc_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wunc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he earned the school's three-year diploma in 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-JInt_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JInt-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He earned his BA from <a href="/wiki/Wheaton_College_(Illinois)" title="Wheaton College (Illinois)">Wheaton College</a> in Illinois in 1978. He later earned an <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Divinity" title="Master of Divinity">MDiv</a> from <a href="/wiki/Princeton_Theological_Seminary" title="Princeton Theological Seminary">Princeton Theological Seminary</a> in 1981 and a PhD in 1985, where he studied <a href="/wiki/Textual_criticism" title="Textual criticism">textual criticism</a> of the Bible, <a href="/wiki/Development_of_the_New_Testament_canon" title="Development of the New Testament canon">development of the New Testament canon</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Testament_apocrypha" title="New Testament apocrypha">New Testament apocrypha</a> under <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Metzger" class="mw-redirect" title="Bruce Metzger">Bruce Metzger</a>. Both the baccalaureate and doctorate were conferred <i><a href="/wiki/Magna_cum_laude" class="mw-redirect" title="Magna cum laude">magna cum laude</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-bio_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bio-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (July 2023)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Career">Career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart_D._Ehrman&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ehrman was raised in the <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_Church_(United_States)" title="Episcopal Church (United States)">Episcopal Church</a>; as a teenager, he became a <a href="/wiki/Born_again" title="Born again">born-again</a> <a href="/wiki/Evangelicalism" title="Evangelicalism">evangelical</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Wunc_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wunc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Shanks_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shanks-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/Misquoting_Jesus" title="Misquoting Jesus">Misquoting Jesus</a></i>, he recounts being certain in his youthful enthusiasm that <a href="/wiki/Biblical_inspiration" title="Biblical inspiration">God had inspired the wording of the Bible</a> and <a href="/wiki/Biblical_inerrancy" title="Biblical inerrancy">protected its texts from all error</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Wunc_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wunc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Shanks_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shanks-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His desire to understand the original words of the Bible led him to study ancient languages, particularly <a href="/wiki/Koine_Greek" title="Koine Greek">Koine Greek</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Textual_criticism" title="Textual criticism">textual criticism</a>. During such studies at Princeton, however, he became convinced that there were <a href="/wiki/Internal_consistency_of_the_Bible#Biblical_criticism_and_criticism_of_the_Bible" title="Internal consistency of the Bible">contradictions and discrepancies in the biblical manuscripts</a> that could not be harmonized or reconciled:<sup id="cite_ref-Wunc_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wunc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I did my very best to hold on to my faith that the Bible was the inspired word of God with no mistakes and that lasted for about two years<span class="nowrap"> </span>[...] I realized that at the time we had over <a href="/wiki/Biblical_manuscript#New_Testament_manuscripts" title="Biblical manuscript">5,000 manuscripts of the New Testament</a>, and no two of them are exactly alike. The <a href="/wiki/Scribe" title="Scribe">scribes</a> were changing them, sometimes in big ways, but lots of times in little ways. And it finally occurred to me that if I really thought that God had inspired this text<span class="nowrap"> </span>[...] If he went to the trouble of inspiring the text, why didn't he go to the trouble of preserving the text? Why did he allow scribes to change it?<sup id="cite_ref-Wunc_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wunc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In the preface to his 2020 book <i>Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife</i>, Ehrman said that he had been scared of going to <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">Hell</a> since he was a child and, when he began to encounter some doubts about his Christian beliefs at college, he became panicked that he might die before he had found the right beliefs, and be sent to Hell.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He subsequently turned into a <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Christianity" title="Liberal Christianity">liberal Christian</a>, remaining in the Episcopal Church for 15 years, but later became an <a href="/wiki/Agnostic_atheism" title="Agnostic atheism">agnostic atheist</a> after struggling with the philosophical <a href="/wiki/Problem_of_evil" title="Problem of evil">problems of evil and suffering</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Wunc_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wunc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JInt_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JInt-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart_D._Ehrman&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart_D._Ehrman&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ehrman has written widely on issues of the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a> and early Christianity at both an academic and popular level, much of it based on <a href="/wiki/Textual_criticism_of_the_New_Testament" title="Textual criticism of the New Testament">textual criticism of the New Testament</a>. His thirty books include three college textbooks and six <i>New York Times</i> bestsellers: <i><a href="/wiki/Misquoting_Jesus" title="Misquoting Jesus">Misquoting Jesus</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Garner_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Garner-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Jesus,_Interrupted" title="Jesus, Interrupted">Jesus, Interrupted</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Schuessler_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schuessler-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>God's Problem</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-God'sProblemNYT_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-God'sProblemNYT-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Forged_(book)" title="Forged (book)">Forged</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-ForgedNYT_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ForgedNYT-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mainpage_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mainpage-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/How_Jesus_Became_God" title="How Jesus Became God">How Jesus Became God</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-HowJesusBecameGodNYT_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HowJesusBecameGodNYT-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Christianity" title="The Triumph of Christianity">The Triumph of Christianity</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More than two million copies of his books have been sold, and his books have been translated into 27 languages.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Jesus:_Apocalyptic_Prophet_of_the_New_Millennium" title="Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium">Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium</a></i>, Ehrman agrees with <a href="/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer#The_Quest_of_the_Historical_Jesus_(1906)" title="Albert Schweitzer">Albert Schweitzer's thesis</a> that Jesus was a <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Apocalypticism" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish Apocalypticism">Jewish apocalyptic preacher</a> and that his main message was that the <a href="/wiki/Eschatology" title="Eschatology">end times</a> were near, that God would shortly intervene to overthrow evil and <a href="/wiki/Kingship_and_kingdom_of_God#Gospels" title="Kingship and kingdom of God">establish his rule on Earth</a>, and that Jesus and his <a href="/wiki/Disciples_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Disciples of Jesus">disciples</a> all believed these end time events would occur in their lifetimes.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i>Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code</i>, Ehrman expands on his list of ten historical and factual inaccuracies in <a href="/wiki/Dan_Brown" title="Dan Brown">Dan Brown</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code" title="The Da Vinci Code">novel</a>, previously incorporated in Dan Burstein's <i>Secrets of the Code</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Misquoting_Jesus" title="Misquoting Jesus">Misquoting Jesus</a></i>, Ehrman outlines the development of New Testament manuscripts and the process and cause of manuscript errors in the New Testament.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NPR_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Jesus,_Interrupted" title="Jesus, Interrupted">Jesus, Interrupted</a></i>, he describes the progress scholars have made in understanding the Bible over the past two hundred years and the results of their study, which are often unknown among the population at large. He highlights the diversity of views found in the New Testament, the existence of forged books in the New Testament which were written in the names of the apostles by Christian writers who lived decades later, and his belief that <a href="/wiki/Christian_theology" title="Christian theology">Christian doctrines</a> such as the <a href="/wiki/Jesus_and_messianic_prophecy" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesus and messianic prophecy">suffering Messiah</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Divinity_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Divinity of Jesus">divinity of Jesus</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity">Trinity</a> were later inventions.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To date, he has changed his mind on several issues, most notably the divinity of Jesus in the <a href="/wiki/Synoptic_Gospels" title="Synoptic Gospels">Synoptic Gospels</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Forged_(book)" title="Forged (book)">Forged</a></i>, Ehrman posits that some New Testament books are <a href="/wiki/Literary_forgery" title="Literary forgery">literary forgeries</a> and shows how widely forgery was practiced by early Christian writers—and how it was condemned in the ancient world as fraudulent and illicit.<sup id="cite_ref-cnn-article_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cnn-article-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His scholarly book, <i>Forgery and Counterforgery</i>, is an advanced look at the practice of forgery in the New Testament and early Christian literature. It makes a case for considering falsely attributed or <i>pseudepigraphic</i> books in the New Testament and early Christian literature "forgery", looks at why certain New Testament and early Christian works are considered forged, and describes the broader phenomenon of <a href="/wiki/Pseudepigraphy" class="mw-redirect" title="Pseudepigraphy">pseudepigraphy</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Greco-Roman_world" title="Greco-Roman world">Greco-Roman world</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2012, Ehrman published <i><a href="/wiki/Did_Jesus_Exist%3F_(Ehrman)" class="mw-redirect" title="Did Jesus Exist? (Ehrman)">Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth</a></i>, defending the historical existence of Jesus of Nazareth in contrast to the <a href="/wiki/Christ_myth_theory" title="Christ myth theory">mythicist theory</a> that Jesus is an entirely fictitious being.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 2014 release of <i>How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee</i> examines the historical Jesus, who according to Ehrman neither thought of himself as God nor claimed to be God, and proffers how he came to be thought of as the <a href="/wiki/Incarnation_(Christianity)" title="Incarnation (Christianity)">incarnation</a> of God himself.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i>Jesus Before the Gospels</i>, he examines the early <a href="/wiki/Oral_gospel_traditions" title="Oral gospel traditions">Christian oral tradition</a> and its role in shaping the stories about Jesus that are encountered in the New Testament.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Christianity:_How_a_Forbidden_Religion_Swept_the_World" class="mw-redirect" title="The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World">The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World</a></i> notes that from the <a href="/wiki/Diversity_in_early_Christian_theology" title="Diversity in early Christian theology">diversity of Christianity</a> "throughout the first four Christian centuries," eventually only one form of Christianity, <a href="/wiki/Nicene_Christianity" title="Nicene Christianity">Nicene Christianity</a>, became <a href="/wiki/State_church_of_the_Roman_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="State church of the Roman Empire">dominant</a> under the rule of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Emperor">Roman Emperor</a> <a href="/wiki/Constantine_the_Great_and_Christianity" title="Constantine the Great and Christianity">Constantine</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Constantinian_dynasty" title="Constantinian dynasty">successors</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Heaven_and_Hell:_A_History_of_the_Afterlife" title="Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife">Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife</a></i> examines the historical development of the concepts of the <a href="/wiki/Afterlife" title="Afterlife">afterlife</a> throughout Greek, Jewish, and early Christian cultures, and how they eventually converged into the concepts of <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">Heaven</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">Hell</a> recognized by modern Christians.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Courses_(on_DVD/CD)"><span id="Courses_.28on_DVD.2FCD.29"></span>Courses (on DVD/CD)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart_D._Ehrman&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Courses (on DVD/CD)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ehrman has released nine courses, consisting of 12 or 24 thirty-minute lectures through <a href="/wiki/The_Great_Courses" class="mw-redirect" title="The Great Courses">The Great Courses</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart_D._Ehrman&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ehrman has been the recipient of the 2009 J. W. Pope "Spirit of Inquiry" Teaching Award, 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.<sup id="cite_ref-bio_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bio-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Daniel_B._Wallace" title="Daniel B. Wallace">Daniel Wallace</a> has praised Ehrman as "one of North America's leading textual critics" and describes him as "one of the most brilliant and creative textual critics I have ever known". Wallace argues, however, that in <i><a href="/wiki/Misquoting_Jesus" title="Misquoting Jesus">Misquoting Jesus</a></i> Ehrman sometimes "overstates his case by assuming that his view is certainly correct". For example, Wallace asserts that Ehrman himself acknowledges the vast majority of textual variants are minor, but his popular writing and speaking sometimes makes the sheer number of them appear to be a major problem for getting to the original New Testament text.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ehrman's <i>The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings</i> is widely used at American colleges and universities.<sup id="cite_ref-HolmenPorter2010_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HolmenPorter2010-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CopanCraig2012_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CopanCraig2012-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The textbook holds to a traditional interpretation of the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas" title="Gospel of Thomas">Gospel of Thomas</a> in the context of second-century Christian <a href="/wiki/Gnosticism" title="Gnosticism">Gnosticism</a>, a view that has been criticized by <a href="/wiki/Elaine_Pagels" title="Elaine Pagels">Elaine Pagels</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Pagels_2015_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pagels_2015-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Alan Kirk found Ehrman's writing in <i>Jesus Before the Gospels</i> to cite memory research selectively, neglecting the fact that John Bartlett's experiment discovered that stories quickly took on a stable, 'schematic' form rather quickly. Ehrman also overemphasizes individual transmission instead of community, makes a 'lethal oversight' where <a href="/wiki/Jan_Vansina" title="Jan Vansina">Jan Vansina</a>, whom he quoted as evidence for corruption in the Jesus tradition, changed his mind, arguing that information was conveyed through a community that placed controls, rather than through chains of transmission easily subject to change. Kirk does sympathize with Ehrman that appealing to memory cannot automatically guarantee historicity.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Andreas_J._K%C3%B6stenberger" title="Andreas J. Köstenberger">Andreas J. Köstenberger</a>, <a href="/wiki/Darrell_L._Bock" title="Darrell L. Bock">Darrell L. Bock</a>, and Josh D. Chatraw have disputed Ehrman's depiction of scholarly consensus, saying: "It is only by defining scholarship on his own terms and by excluding scholars who disagree with him that Ehrman is able to imply that he is supported by all other scholarship,"<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but <a href="/wiki/Michael_R._Licona" title="Michael R. Licona">Michael R. Licona</a>, scholar and Christian apologist, notes that "his positions are those largely embraced by mainstream skeptical scholarship."<sup id="cite_ref-CopanCraig2012_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CopanCraig2012-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gary Kamiya states in <a href="/wiki/Salon_(website)" class="mw-redirect" title="Salon (website)"><i>Salon</i></a> that "Ehrman's scholarly standing did not soothe the evangelical Christians who were outraged by <i>Misquoting Jesus</i>. Angered by what they took to be the book's subversive import, they attacked it as exaggerated, unfair and lacking a devotional tone. No fewer than three books were published in response to Ehrman's tome".<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014, <a href="/wiki/Zondervan" title="Zondervan">Zondervan</a> published <i>How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus' Divine Nature: A Response to Bart D. Ehrman</i> as a planned companion volume to Ehrman's <i>How Jesus Became God</i>. The contributing authors—including <a href="/wiki/Michael_F._Bird" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael F. Bird">Michael F. Bird</a>, <a href="/wiki/Craig_A._Evans" title="Craig A. Evans">Craig A. Evans</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Simon_Gathercole" class="mw-redirect" title="Simon Gathercole">Simon Gathercole</a>—present Ehrman as "prone to profound confusion, botched readings, and scholarly fictions."<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bird writes Ehrman's work has received a negative reception from conservative Christians but a warm reception from the non-religious.<sup id="cite_ref-BirdEvans2014_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BirdEvans2014-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Charles Gieschen, whose work Ehrman cited, has objected to the latter's usage of his work in <i>How Jesus Became God</i>, instead arguing for a Christology where Jesus is identified with the God of Israel.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ehrman has participated in several debates on the topic of the historical reliability of the Gospels. This includes a 2014 debate with Protestant apologist<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/James_White_(theologian)" title="James White (theologian)">James White</a> and a 2022 debate with Roman Catholic apologist <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Akin" title="Jimmy Akin">Jimmy Akin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart_D._Ehrman&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ehrman has been married twice and has two children from his first marriage. He is married to Sarah Beckwith, a professor of medieval literature at <a href="/wiki/Duke_University" title="Duke University">Duke University</a> and an Episcopalian.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the exception of <a href="/wiki/Sports_broadcasting" class="mw-redirect" title="Sports broadcasting">sports broadcasting</a>, Ehrman does not watch <a href="/wiki/Television" title="Television">television</a>, but reportedly does watch a classic <a href="/wiki/Criterion_Collection" class="mw-redirect" title="Criterion Collection">Criterion Collection</a> film with Beckwith on a weekly basis.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart_D._Ehrman&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 35em"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Didymus the Blind and the Text of the Gospels (The New Testament in the Greek Fathers; 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Oxford University Press, US. 2004. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-518140-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-518140-9"><bdi>0-19-518140-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Truth+and+Fiction+in+The+Da+Vinci+Code%3A+A+Historian+Reveals+What+We+Really+Know+about+Jesus%2C+Mary+Magdalene%2C+and+Constantine&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press%2C+US&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=0-19-518140-9&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ftruthfictionin00ehrm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMetzgerEhrman,_Bart2005" class="citation book cs1">Metzger, Bruce M.; Ehrman, Bart (2005). <i>The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration</i>. Oxford University Press, US. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-516667-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-516667-1"><bdi>0-19-516667-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Text+of+the+New+Testament%3A+Its+Transmission%2C+Corruption%2C+and+Restoration&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press%2C+US&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0-19-516667-1&rft.aulast=Metzger&rft.aufirst=Bruce+M.&rft.au=Ehrman%2C+Bart&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i><a href="/wiki/Misquoting_Jesus" title="Misquoting Jesus">Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/HarperSanFrancisco" class="mw-redirect" title="HarperSanFrancisco">HarperSanFrancisco</a>. 2005. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-073817-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-073817-0"><bdi>0-06-073817-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Misquoting+Jesus%3A+The+Story+Behind+Who+Changed+the+Bible+and+Why&rft.pub=HarperSanFrancisco&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0-06-073817-0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/peterpaulmarymag00ehrm_0"><i>Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend</i></a>. Oxford University Press, US. 2006. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-530013-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-530013-0"><bdi>0-19-530013-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Peter%2C+Paul%2C+and+Mary+Magdalene%3A+The+Followers+of+Jesus+in+History+and+Legend&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press%2C+US&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=0-19-530013-0&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fpeterpaulmarymag00ehrm_0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament</i>. <a href="/wiki/Brill_Publishers" title="Brill Publishers">Brill Publishers</a>, US. 2006. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/90-04-15032-3" title="Special:BookSources/90-04-15032-3"><bdi>90-04-15032-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Studies+in+the+Textual+Criticism+of+the+New+Testament&rft.pub=Brill+Publishers%2C+US&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=90-04-15032-3&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lostgospelofjuda00ehrm"><i>The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed</i></a>. Oxford University Press, US. 2006. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-531460-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-531460-1"><bdi>978-0-19-531460-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Lost+Gospel+of+Judas+Iscariot%3A+A+New+Look+at+Betrayer+and+Betrayed&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press%2C+US&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-0-19-531460-1&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Flostgospelofjuda00ehrm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/godsproblemhowbi00ehrm"><i>God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question – Why We Suffer</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/HarperCollins" title="HarperCollins">HarperCollins</a>, US. 2008. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-117397-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-117397-4"><bdi>978-0-06-117397-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=God%27s+Problem%3A+How+the+Bible+Fails+to+Answer+Our+Most+Important+Question+%E2%80%93+Why+We+Suffer&rft.pub=HarperCollins%2C+US&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-06-117397-4&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fgodsproblemhowbi00ehrm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i><a href="/wiki/Jesus,_Interrupted" title="Jesus, Interrupted">Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/HarperCollins" title="HarperCollins">HarperCollins</a>, US. 2009. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-117394-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-117394-3"><bdi>978-0-06-117394-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus%2C+Interrupted%3A+Revealing+the+Hidden+Contradictions+in+the+Bible+%28And+Why+We+Don%27t+Know+About+Them%29&rft.pub=HarperCollins%2C+US&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-0-06-117394-3&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i><a href="/wiki/Forged_(book)" title="Forged (book)">Forged: Writing in the Name of God – Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/HarperCollins" title="HarperCollins">HarperCollins</a>, US. 2011. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-201261-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-201261-6"><bdi>978-0-06-201261-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Forged%3A+Writing+in+the+Name+of+God+%E2%80%93+Why+the+Bible%27s+Authors+Are+Not+Who+We+Think+They+Are&rft.pub=HarperCollins%2C+US&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-0-06-201261-6&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEhrmanPleše,_Zlatko2011" class="citation book cs1">Ehrman, Bart; Pleše, Zlatko (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780199732104"><i>The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations</i></a>. Oxford University Press, US. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-973210-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-973210-4"><bdi>978-0-19-973210-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Apocryphal+Gospels%3A+Texts+and+Translations&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press%2C+US&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-0-19-973210-4&rft.aulast=Ehrman&rft.aufirst=Bart&rft.au=Ple%C5%A1e%2C+Zlatko&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fisbn_9780199732104&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i><a href="/wiki/Did_Jesus_Exist%3F_(Ehrman)" class="mw-redirect" title="Did Jesus Exist? (Ehrman)">Did Jesus Exist? 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Oxford University Press, US. 2012. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-992803-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-992803-3"><bdi>978-0-19-992803-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Forgery+and+Counterforgery%3A+The+Use+of+Literary+Deceit+in+Early+Christian+Polemics&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press%2C+US&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-0-19-992803-3&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>The Bible: A Historical and Literary Introduction</i>. Oxford University Press, US. 2013. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-530816-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-530816-7"><bdi>978-0-19-530816-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Bible%3A+A+Historical+and+Literary+Introduction&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press%2C+US&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-0-19-530816-7&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>The Other Gospels: Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament</i>. Oxford University Press, US. 2013. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-933522-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-933522-0"><bdi>978-0-19-933522-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Other+Gospels%3A+Accounts+of+Jesus+from+Outside+the+New+Testament&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press%2C+US&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-0-19-933522-0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i><a href="/wiki/How_Jesus_Became_God:_The_Exaltation_of_a_Jewish_Preacher_from_Galilee" class="mw-redirect" title="How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee">How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee</a></i>. <a 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(identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0062285201" title="Special:BookSources/978-0062285201"><bdi>978-0062285201</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Jesus+Before+the+Gospels%3A+How+the+Earliest+Christians+Remembered%2C+Changed%2C+and+Invented+Their+Stories+of+the+Savior&rft.pub=HarperOne%2C+US&rft.date=2016&rft.isbn=978-0062285201&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Triumph_of_Christianity:_How_a_Forbidden_Religion_Swept_the_World" class="mw-redirect" title="The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World">The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster" title="Simon & Schuster">Simon & Schuster</a>, US. 2018. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1501136702" title="Special:BookSources/978-1501136702"><bdi>978-1501136702</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Triumph+of+Christianity%3A+How+a+Forbidden+Religion+Swept+the+World&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster%2C+US&rft.date=2018&rft.isbn=978-1501136702&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i><a href="/wiki/Heaven_and_Hell:_A_History_of_the_Afterlife" title="Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife">Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster" title="Simon & Schuster">Simon & Schuster</a>, US. 2020. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1501136733" title="Special:BookSources/978-1501136733"><bdi>978-1501136733</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Heaven+and+Hell%3A+A+History+of+the+Afterlife&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster%2C+US&rft.date=2020&rft.isbn=978-1501136733&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition</i>. <a href="/wiki/Yale_University_Press" title="Yale University Press">Yale University Press</a>, US. 2022. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0300257007" title="Special:BookSources/978-0300257007"><bdi>978-0300257007</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Journeys+to+Heaven+and+Hell%3A+Tours+of+the+Afterlife+in+the+Early+Christian+Tradition&rft.pub=Yale+University+Press%2C+US&rft.date=2022&rft.isbn=978-0300257007&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End</i>. <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster" title="Simon & Schuster">Simon & Schuster</a>, US. 2023. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1982147990" title="Special:BookSources/978-1982147990"><bdi>978-1982147990</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Armageddon%3A+What+the+Bible+Really+Says+about+the+End&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster%2C+US&rft.date=2023&rft.isbn=978-1982147990&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart_D._Ehrman&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pronounced <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ɜːr/: 'ur' in 'fur'">ɜːr</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>/</a></span></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart_D._Ehrman&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz2mLpcCFW0">"Interview with Dr. Bart Ehrman (Jesus Mythicism, Jesus' Resurrection, Jesus in the Quran)"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Wunc-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Wunc_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Wunc_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Wunc_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Wunc_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Wunc_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Wunc_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKinlawStasio2018" class="citation news cs1">Kinlaw, Robert; Stasio, Frank (March 5, 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wunc.org/post/sunday-school-teacher-turned-skeptic-meet-bart-ehrman">"The Sunday School Teacher Turned Skeptic: Meet Bart Ehrman"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/WUNC_(FM)" title="WUNC (FM)">WUNC News</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Chapel_Hill,_North_Carolina" title="Chapel Hill, North Carolina">Chapel Hill, North Carolina</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Brill. p. 822. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-16372-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-16372-0"><bdi>978-90-04-16372-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Handbook+for+the+Study+of+the+Historical+Jesus+%284+Vols%29&rft.pages=822&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-90-04-16372-0&rft.aulast=Kirk&rft.aufirst=Alan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DLuKMmVu0tpMC%26pg%3DPA822&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-CopanCraig2012-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-CopanCraig2012_35-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-CopanCraig2012_35-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLicona2012" class="citation book cs1">Licona, Michael (2012). 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 3,</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Salon&rft.atitle=Jesus+is+just+alright+with+him&rft.date=2009-04-03&rft.aulast=Kamiya&rft.aufirst=Gary&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salon.com%2F2009%2F04%2F03%2Fjesus_interrupted%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMurawski2014" class="citation news cs1">Murawski, John (March 25, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/25/bart-ehrman-jesus-god_n_5029457.html">"Bart Ehrman's 'How Jesus Became God' Book Will Be Instantly Rebutted By 'How God Became Jesus'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Huffington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Huffington Post">Huffington Post</a></i>. 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With the profits, he does the Christian thing"</a>. <i>Religion News Service</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Religion+News+Service&rft.atitle=His+popular+blog+debunks+Christian+myths.+With+the+profits%2C+he+does+the+Christian+thing.&rft.date=2023-02-10&rft.aulast=Shimron&rft.aufirst=Yonat&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Freligionnews.com%2F2023%2F02%2F10%2Fhis-made-a-fortune-debunking-christian-myths-then-he-did-the-christian-thing-and-donated-it-to-charity%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Briefly reviewed in the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/30/dress-code-journeys-to-heaven-and-hell-rouge-street-and-little-rabbit">May 30, 2022 issue</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>, p.69.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bart_D._Ehrman&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPrice2018" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Robert_M._Price" title="Robert M. Price">Price, Robert M.</a> (2018), <i>Bart Ehrman Interpreted: How One Radical New Testament Scholar Understands Another</i>, Durham, NC: Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA), <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1634311588" title="Special:BookSources/978-1634311588"><bdi>978-1634311588</bdi></a>, <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1020301095">1020301095</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bart+Ehrman+Interpreted%3A+How+One+Radical+New+Testament+Scholar+Understands+Another&rft.place=Durham%2C+NC&rft.pub=Pitchstone+Publishing+%28US%26CA%29&rft.date=2018&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1020301095&rft.isbn=978-1634311588&rft.aulast=Price&rft.aufirst=Robert+M.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABart+D.+Ehrman" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKinlawStasio2018" class="citation web cs1">Kinlaw, Robert; Stasio, Frank (March 5, 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wunc.org/post/sunday-school-teacher-turned-skeptic-meet-bart-ehrman">"The Sunday School Teacher Turned Skeptic: Meet Bart Ehrman"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(pod)</span>. <i>State of Things</i>. 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