"Misquoting Jesus" - Dr. Bart Ehrman | The Truth about the Bible

Biography of Bart D. Ehrman

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina 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 Ph.D. 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 twenty-four 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 three New York Times Bestsellers: Jesus Interrupted ( an account of scholarly views of the New Testament), 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). His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages.

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 co-editor of the series New Testament Tools, Studies, and Documents (E. J. Brill), co-editor-in-chief for the journal Vigiliae Christianae, and on several other editorial boards for journals and monographs in the field.

Professor Ehrman lectures extensively throughout the country. Winner of numerous university awards and grants, he is 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.

Professor Ehrman has two children, a daughter, Kelly, and a son, Derek. He is married to Sarah Beckwith (Ph.D., King's College London), Marcello Lotti Professor of English at Duke University. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

http://www.bartdehrman.com/

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[Gsinkaos]

Wow---- this really takes one talking point and runs with it-- Number one- there wasn't just one person making copies... they were many people.. If there were serious differences wouldn't someone say something? I still don't get this simple fact---- if the koran is supposed to be continuation of the new testament then why do muslim's contest with it? The new testament IS the continuation of the old testament and validates it. question-- what religion prays the most but has the most destruction?

[QuranTafseer]

@Gsinkaos LOL we pray the most but yes we have the most destruction since so called "christian/Zionist" nations feel that they can bomb our lands and steal our wealth i.e. america full of christians has been doing it from day one when they went to the America's and killed the cherokie indians, the spanish done the same in Mexico were they killed those who didn't become christians, today its slightly diff just bombs and stealing oil/wealth

[NanoFishMan]

Interesting that this discourse is used as a support for the Quran, which is merely an extrapolated clone of the Old Testament and Jewish religion.

[QuranTafseer]

@NanoFishMan We say it comes from the same source, and we also say we have the origianl i.e. Muslim and even non muslim scholars,

whilst the bible scholars state that they don't have the original mansucripts of the New or Old testament.

[QuranTafseer]

@NanoFishMan We say it comes from the same source, and we also say we have the origianl i.e. Muslim and even non muslim scholars,

whilst the bible scholars state that they don't have the originals,

[daneshjoo2011]

@NanoFishMan

Says YOU? More like you WANT to believe it is a clone. The accounts about the Prophets (as) are very different in the Quran than the Bible. For example in the Bible David committing adultery and murder, Solomon becoming idolatrous and pagan, Lot having sex with his daughters, Noah getting drunk. Slanderous lies which Islam denounces. The Quran tells the true accounts of these wonderful Prophets (as). They were men of God that were there to set an example to other men.

[CalumGilhooly]

@jawatroxion Islam Shmislam!

[QuranTafseer]

@axxle000 LOL all you just said is F submiting to God?

Ironic coming from a chrisitan!

[QuranTafseer]

@NanoFishMan So are you a christian?