Bart D. Ehrman books

Bart D. Ehrman is a New Testament scholar and bestselling author known for books like Misquoting Jesus, How Jesus Became God, and Jesus, Interrupted that explore early Christianity and biblical history.

Anthologies

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New Testament Greek and Exegesis 2003 Buy

Non-Fiction

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Didymus the Blind & the Text of the Gospels 1986 Buy
The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament 1993 Buy
The Text of the New Testament In Contemporary Research 1995 Buy
The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings 1996 Buy
The New Testament And Other Early Christian Writings 1997 Buy
After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity 1998 Buy
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium 1999 Buy
The Historical Jesus 2000 Buy
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew 2002 Buy
Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It Into the New Testament 2003 Buy
Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 CE: A Reader 2003 Buy
From Jesus to Constantine 2004 Buy
Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene & Constantine 2004 Buy
A Brief Introduction to the New Testament 2004 Buy
The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration 2005 Buy
Whose Word Is It? The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why 2005 Buy
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why 2005 Buy
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed 2006 Buy
Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament 2006 Buy
Peter, Paul & Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History & Legend 2006 Buy
God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer 2008 Buy
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don’t Know About Them 2009 Buy
The Reliability of the New Testament 2011 Buy
Forged: Writing in the Name of God 2011 Buy
The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations 2011 Buy
Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth 2012 Buy
Forgery and Counter-forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics 2012 Buy
The Other Gospels: Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament 2013 Buy
The History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon 2013 Buy
The Greatest Controversies of Early Christian History 2013 Buy
The Bible: A Historical and Literary Introduction 2013 Buy
How Jesus Became God : the Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee 2014 Buy
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior 2016 Buy
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World 2017 Buy
Summary and Analysis of the Books of the Bible: A Quick Guide 2019 Buy
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife 2020 Buy
36 Big Ideas 2020 Buy
After the New Testament: The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers 2020 Buy
Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? 2020 Buy
Journeys to Heaven and Hell 2022 Buy
When Did Jesus Become God?: A Christological Debate 2022 Buy
Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End 2023 Buy
Love Thy Stranger 2026 Buy

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written or edited more than thirty books, including six New York Times bestsellers. His academic specialty is New Testament textual criticism, but he is best known for his popular works that make biblical scholarship accessible to general readers.

Ehrman’s books cover a wide range of topics related to the Bible and early Christianity. Misquoting Jesus (2005) examines how scribes changed the New Testament as they copied it by hand over the centuries. How Jesus Became God (2014) traces the process by which a Jewish preacher from Galilee came to be worshipped as God. Other books like Forged (2011) and Did Jesus Exist? (2012) tackle questions about authorship and historicity that scholars have debated for decades.

Before turning to popular writing, Ehrman built his academic reputation through technical works on textual criticism, including his dissertation on Didymus the Blind (1986) and The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture (1993). He has also produced several textbooks and lecture courses used in university classrooms. His work consistently draws on the methods of mainstream biblical scholarship while presenting the findings in clear, readable prose.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Bart D. Ehrman best known for?

Ehrman is best known for his popular books about the New Testament and early Christianity, especially Misquoting Jesus (2005), which became a New York Times bestseller. He writes about how the Bible was copied and changed over the centuries, how early Christians developed their beliefs about Jesus, and what historians can know about the origins of Christianity.

Is Bart D. Ehrman a religious believer?

Ehrman was raised in a Christian household and attended Moody Bible Institute and Wheaton College before earning his PhD at Princeton Theological Seminary. Over time, his academic study of the Bible led him away from evangelical Christianity. He now describes himself as an agnostic, though he still considers the New Testament an important historical document worth studying.

What are Bart Ehrman's most popular books?

His most widely read books include Misquoting Jesus (2005), which covers how scribes altered the New Testament text; Jesus, Interrupted (2009), which examines contradictions in the Bible; How Jesus Became God (2014), which traces how early Christians came to view Jesus as divine; and Heaven and Hell (2020), which looks at the history of afterlife beliefs.

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