Who is Bart Ehrman?
Bart Ehrman (born 1955) is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of New Testament, historical Jesus, and development of early Christianity.
Ehrman has written and edited 30 books, including three college textbooks. He has also authored six New York Times bestsellers. He is currently the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Search Result on Bart Ehrman (224 total)
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Jesus and the Historian - 
How Jesus Became God - 
Did Jesus claim to be God? - 
Bible scholar reveals the truth about the Bible - 
Did the Historical Jesus Claim to Be Divine? - 
The Faces of Jesus - 
Jesus Before the Gospels - 
Who Wrote The Gospels: Mark, Matthew, Luke & John? - 
How Jesus Became God - 
Does the Bible misquote Jesus? - 
Contradictions in the Bible - 
Is the original New Testament Bible lost? - 
Are Gospels Based on Eyewitness Testimony - 
Are Gospels Based on Eyewitness Testimony - 
Jesus, Law and New Covenant - 
Misquoting Jesus: Who changed the Bible? - 
Was the New Testament forged? - 
Did Jesus Exist? - 
The Gospel Truth: Sometimes A Little Hazy - 
Evolution of Jesus in Early Christianity - 
Hidden Christianity - 
Peter, Apostle Paul and Mary Magdalene - 
How Jesus became God UCC - 
How Jesus became God UCC - 
How Jesus became God UCC - 
The case against Jesus' Resurrection - 
Deconstructing the New Testament - 
Can We Trust the Gospels? - 
Can We Trust the Gospels? - 
Does the New Testament misquote Jesus? - 
How Jesus Became God Q&A - 
Can historians prove Jesus rose from the dead? - 
Did Apostle Paul write 2 Corinthians? - 
Lost Christianities: TV Interview - 
Lost Christianities - 
On the Bible Authors - 
Origins of the Trinity - 
Bible Authors are not who we think they are #Forged - 
Is the New Testament lost? - 
Authenticity of the New Testament - 
Origins of the New Testament - 
Do we have the Original Manuscripts of the New Testament? - 
Can we reconstruct the Original Manuscripts of New Testament? - 
Jesus come in the Flesh (Shaffer Lectures) - 
Jesus the Divine Man (Shaffer Lectures) - 
Jesus against the Jews (Shaffer Lectures) - 
Apostle Paul only wrote 7 Letters/Epistles out of 13 - 
The Creation of the King James Bible - 
Mark 16:9-20 is fake - 
Early Christians did not believe Jesus was God or in the Trinity - 
Jesus' Resurrection - 
Is the Bible Historically Reliable? - 
Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World - 
The Triumph of Christianity - 
Christianity's Path from 'Forbidden' to 'Triumph' - 
Suffering & God's Existence - 
The Case Against Jesus' Resurrection - 
Triumph of Christianity: How Rome took over Christianity - 
Matthew and John quote Jesus' sermons 50 years after he died.. Really? - 
Jesus claims he is divine, God-like in John's Gospel only. Why? - 
Gospels were not written by Mark, Matthew, Luke or John. These names were decided 100 years later - 
Jesus' disciples were Aramaic speaking, lower class, uneducated labourers. Gospels were written by highly educated, Greeks 50 years after Jesus - 
New Testament scholars agree Gospels are Anonymous, not written by Jesus' disciples, or eye-witnesses - 
Paul spoke Greek. How did he communicate with Jesus' Aramaic speaking disciples? - 
Jesus was a Jewish prophet who preached the Kingdom of God - 
Jesus never claimed to be divine or God-like in Matthew, Mark or Luke - 
Gospels are 'stories' by Greek writers 40 years after Jesus' crucifixion, not eyewitness accounts - 
Palestine had a 97% illiteracy rate. Jesus' disciples, poor, lower class labourers could not read or write - 
Mark, Matthew, Luke and John could not read or write. Who wrote the Gospels? - 
Gospel of Matthew: A collection of anonymous Jesus' stories, entitled 100 years later - 
In John, Jesus is a God-like diety from Heaven. In earlier Gospels, Jesus is more of a man-prophet - 
Mark, Matthew, Luke and John have too many differences and contradictions - 
Original Gospel Text does not exist. 1000's of copies, discovered 100's of years later do exist - 
In John 7:53, the adulteress story was added to the Bible by later scribes - 
New Testament Bible: 27 books were finally chosen 300 years after gospels were written - 
Jesus and his disciples were Jewish. Yet, Jews rejected him as Messiah - 
Paul was Jewish, but turned against Judaism - 
93% of Romans were polytheist pagans with many Gods. Christians had a 'more powerful' God - 
For me, the Bible has too many 'human' mistakes to be the inerrant revelation from God - 
Jesus existed with His Father since time began, or created later? (Arian Controversy) - 
In 325 AD, Council of Nicaea debated and voted on divinity of Jesus - 
In 70 AD, Mark, the earliest Gospel depicts Jesus as suffering & dying Jewish Messiah - 
After his resurrection, Jesus became a God, like Romulus, Moses etc. - 
Jesus progressed to God through Docetism, Separationism, Modalism and Trinitarianism - 
In 225 AD, Tertullian defined Trinity: 3 Gods in 1 Person, or Orthodox Christianity - 
Early Christians did not believe Trinity, or write about it in New Testament Bible - 
In 1 John 5:7-8, the Trinity verse was added by later scribes. It is missing from the earliest Greek manuscripts - 
Ebionites believed Jesus was Jewish Messiah sent by Jewish God to Jews fulfilling Jewish Scripture - 
Jesus orders greater Jewish Law observance than the Pharisees, religious Jews - 
Jesus was a strict Jewish teacher who fully observed Old Testament Jewish Law - 
Jesus, a Jew who observed Judaism did not plan to start Christianity, a new religion - 
For Apostle Paul, Jesus' death & resurrection was key to salvation. Not the Jewish Law - 
Keeping Old Testament in the Bible benefits Christianity with historical roots and antiquity - 
As Jews rejected Jesus Christ, Christians felt anger and hate towards Judaism - 
In the ancient world, Jews and pagans believed in many divine beings and Gods - 
In Hebrew Bible, God took human form and walked amongst Adam & Eve in Garden of Eden - 
In Hebrew Bible, the 'Angel of the Lord' regularly appears as a Human being - 
In Genesis, 'sons of God' married beautiful earthly women reproduced Giants (Nephilim) - 
In Hebrew Bible, humans were called Gods i.e. King of Israel, Enoch - 
During his life, Jesus never called himself God, or think of himself as God - 
Pontius Pilate crucified Jesus for Treason, as 'rival' King of the Jews - 
Within 20 years, Jesus' status was debated, gradually Jesus was promoted to Godhead - 
Most likely, after Crucifixion, Jesus was left on Cross, his body decomposed and birds/dogs scavenged him - 
In Mark 2:10, Jesus claims authority to forgive Sin. But this does not make him God - 
In the Early Church, their were many different versions of Christianity - 
Early Christians believed in 1, 2, 30, even 365 different Gods - 
Early Christians viewed Jesus as human & divine, human only, and divine only? - 
Early Christians differed on Jesus' resurrection: physical, spiritual or a symbolic event? - 
Christians today differ on what constitutes the Bible and scripture - 
Early Christians held conflicting and opposing beliefs on Christian doctrine - 
New Testament Bible contains books with conflicting teachings on Orthodox Christianity - 
Early Christians freely disagreed on Christian fundamentals as the Bible did not exist - 
Mark, Matthew, Luke, John... Where's the other Gospels, Acts and Epistles? - 
Ebionites, early Christians believed Jesus was a Human being - 
Ebionites, early Christians held beliefs very similar to Jesus and his disciples - 
Ebionites, early Christians were Jewish, but believed Jesus was the Jewish Messiah - 
Ebionites, early Christians required followers to convert to Judaism - 
For Jews, the Messiah would be great, powerful and defeat God's enemies; Jesus failed! - 
Ebionites, early Christians were right to believe Jesus was a Jew - 
Paul preached to majority, gentiles, pagans and idolators, who had no interest in Judaism or a Jewish Jesus - 
Ebionites, the earliest Christians viewed Paul as a Heretic, and rejected his writings - 
Jesus, an Aramaic speaking Palestinian. New Testament originally in Greek, language of Rome - 
Matthew, Mark and Luke are similar and different. Were the Gospel differences 'inspired' by God? - 
Mark was copied by Matthew and Luke - 
John's gospel presents a unique 'maverick' account of Jesus - 
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are NOT objective, historically accurate accounts of Jesus' life - 
6 of 13 Paul's Letters (or Epistles) were written by unknown authors at a later date - 
Jesus, a Jewish prophet who worshiped the Jewish God. Paul created and spread Christianity - 
Apostle Paul never met Jesus in his lifetime. Paul spoke Greek and lived outside of Palestine - 
Apostle Paul preached Jesus' death & resurrection guaranteed Salvation, not observing Jewish Law - 
Apostle Paul established Churches, and converted Gentiles, Polytheists and Pagans to Christianity - 
In Galatians, Apostle Paul orders new Christians abandon circumcision/Jewish Law; return to faith in Jesus - 
Apostle Paul was highly controversial amongst early Christians who believed he had fabricated the Gospels - 
Apostle Paul taught faith in Jesus' blood/death on the Cross was ultimate sacrifice for our Sins - 
3 Corinthians explains Docetism. The concept did not exist. It is a Forgery! - 
Apostle Paul may not have written 2 Thessalonians, Ephesians and Colossians - 
Apostle Paul did not write 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus - 
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are written by Anonymous Authors in third-person (i.e. they) - 
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John authored by highly-educated, literate, 2nd gen. Greek speakers - 
Gospels are 'Jesus Stories', rumours and gossip spread orally amongst early Christians - 
Conflicting Gospel accounts of Jesus' Crucifixion and final moments - 
Gospels present fundamentally opposing Jesus stories due to 'oral culture' - 
On Jesus' birth, Matthew and Luke give different accounts - 
On Jesus' death, Mark and Luke give different accounts - 
Mark Gospel, the first gospel, Jesus is the suffering Son of God who nobody recognizes - 
Matthew depicts Jesus as a Jewish Messiah, and emphasizes Jewish Law - 
Luke's Gospel depicts Jesus as a prophet with a universal message, rejected by his people - 
John's Gospel, Jesus reveals his true identity, divine God who came to Earth - 
Original text of all New Testament books is lost - 
In Hebrews, scribes edited a verse as they saw fit - 
In 1707 AD, John Mill reported on 30,000 textual variants in 100 Bible manuscripts - 
Luke Gospel, a 14th century manuscript (109) proves a scribe incorrectly copied Jesus' geneology - 
In John 7:53, Scribes added, later removed, the Adulteress story from New Testament - 
In Mark 16:9-20, Scribes wrote a 'longer ending' to New Testament Bible - 
In Mark 1:40, Scribes replaced an 'angry' Jesus with a 'compassionate' Jesus - 
In Joshua 6:21, God ordered Israelites to destroy the inhabitants of Jericho - 
In 2 Kings 2:24, God allows Elisha to summon bears to hurt the children - 
Gnostic Christians praise John's Gospel as he writes of a 'Salvation' diety coming to Earth - 
In 367 AD, the New Testament Bible finally came into existence, 330 years after Jesus - 
Early Christians, Ebionites, Marcionites, Gnostics, all had their own Bibles and scripture - 
Anonymous Texts given Apostolic titles, Matthew, Mark etc. to qualify for Bible NT canon - 
In 1545 AD, Council of Trent was first ecumenical council to officially recognise 27 New Testament books - 
Matthew recalls Jesus' 2000-word 'Sermon On The Mount', 55 years after Jesus delivered it? - 
1 Timothy was probably not written by Paul - 
Apocalypse of Peter almost made it into the New Testament canon - 
During his life, Jesus never once claimed he was God - 
Jesus' central message was repent of your Sins, and prepare for God's Kingdom, not Love - 
Jesus' stories were orally circulating 40-60 years before Gospels were written - 
Mark's Gospel was not based on Peter's Testimony or any other Jerusalem eyewitness - 
John-Mark wrote Mark's Gospel? Historical studies and evidences do not prove this - 
Anonymous author of Mark's Gospel resided outside of Palestine - 
Source for Mark's Gospel? It was not Peter's Testimony or any eyewitness' account - 
If Mark's Gospel was based on eyewitness', why did Matthew & Luke 'radically' edit it? - 
Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Justin & Papias quoted from nameless, anonymous Gospels - 
Irenaeus (180 AD) named popular, 'anonymous' texts Mark, Matthew, Luke, John for Apostolic reasons - 
Papias (163 AD) described Matthew's Gospel as Jesus' sayings written in Hebrew - 
Gospels are not Jesus' words. They are Oral stories passed down years later - 
Early Christians invented Jesus' stories, sayings and sermons; aka New Testament - 
Jesus' stories were shared between Gospel writers. This is not proof of Bible preservation - 
Critical scholars doubt the Jesus' sayings in John's Gospel on Jesus' divinity - 
Oral story tellers created Jesus' stories long before the Gospels were written - 
If Matthew and Luke revised Mark, what about the earlier 'unchecked' Oral tradition? - 
Pagans gave up their Gods, and turned to the one Christian, all-powerful, Jealous God - 
Apostle Paul wrote Letters. Later Christians, raised their status to God-inspired revelation - 
Apostle Paul taught new Christians, ex-pagans, did not have to convert to Judaism - 
Gospels are not 100% accurate accounts of Jesus - 
Anonymous writings were named after Apostles (Peter, James, Mark etc.) for credibility - 
Jesus' resurrection is nowhere to be found in the New Testament Gospels - 
Differences & discrepencies are proof Biblical stories been revised again and again - 
Mark, Matthew, Luke, John are anonymous texts named later (false ascriptions) - 
After 100 years, Church Fathers refered to gospels as Matthew, Mark, Luke & John - 
John's Gospel may have been authored by multiple anonymous authors - 
6 of 13 Apostle Paul's Letters were not written by Paul, but unknown authors - 
6 of 13 Apostle Paul's Letters were forgeries, written for 'Greater Christian Good' - 
Jesus' disciple, Peter, an illiterate Palestinian fisherman did not write 1/2 Peter - 
In 367 AD, Athanasius decided the 27 books to include in the Christian NT Bible - 
The original New Testament Bible - 
Papias (d. 163 AD), a Proto-orthodox Church Father believed in Orthodox Christianity, before it was declared Orthodox – 
In Matthew 1:18, Jesus had a begining. He was 'born' into existence - 
Jesus spoke Aramaic. Not Greek or Latin - 
Matthew and Luke copied from Gospel of Mark - 
Do Muslims follow the true Jesus? - 
Is the New Testament Bible full of fiction? | 
Jesus NEVER Claimed to be God | 
The Real Story behind the Virgin Birth in Christianity | 
Who Understood Jesus - Christians or Muslims? | 
Did Christians Invent Jesus' Teachings? | 
Was Jesus an Essene? | 
Did Jesus actually believe in Hell? | 
Evolution of Heaven & Hell in Judaism and Early Christianity. What did Jesus believe? | 
The Original Jesus Was Hidden in Gospel of Mark | Topics with Bart Ehrman (3)
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Who is Bart Ehrman?
Bart Ehrman (born 1955) is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of New Testament, historical Jesus, and development of early Christianity. Ehrman has written and edited 30 books, including three college textbooks. He has also authored six New York Times bestsellers. He is currently the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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| 1. If Jesus Never Called Himself God, How Did He Become One? | Bart Ehrman/Npr books |
| 2. Misquoting Jesus | Bart Ehrman Blog/WPSU |
