Bart D. Ehrman

Bart Ehrman is James A. Gray Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A leading authority on the early Church and the life of Jesus, he has been featured in TIME and has appeared on NBC Dateline, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CNN, History Channel, major NPR shows, and other top media outlets. He is the author of twenty books and lives in Durham, North Carolina.

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Bible/Jesus Experts

Jesus, Interrupted

Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)

Talking Points

Bart Ehrman is among the most sought-after religion experts in the world. He has been featured in TIME, profiled in the Washington Post, and has appeared on NBC Dateline, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CNN, History Channel, and top NPR shows. He can assertively speak about the Bible, Christianity, Jesus, and religion.

Description

The problems with the Bible that New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman discussed in his New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus, are expanded exponentially in his new book Jesus, Interrupted. Here we find not only that Christian scribes altered the texts of their sacred Scripture, but also that the books of Scripture themselves, in their original forms, are often completely at odds with one another

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Bible/Jesus Experts

God’s Problem

How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer

Talking Points

BART EHRMAN is James A. Gray Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A leading authority on the early Church and the life of Jesus, he has been featured in TIME and has appeared on NBC Dateline, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CNN, History Channel, major NPR shows, and other top media outlets. He is the author of twenty books and lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Description

War, disease, natural disasters, abuse, pain, and death— why do we suffer? If God is not responsible, who is? Surprisingly, the Bible does not have one answer but many “answers” that often contradict each other.

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Biography/History

Did Jesus Exist?

The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth

Talking Points

The New York Times bestselling author and leading Bible expert tackles one of the most pressing questions in the history of religion and forcefully argues that, yes, Jesus did actually exist and offers a compelling historical portrait of the man from Nazareth.

Description

Large numbers of atheists, humanists, and conspiracy theorists are raising one of the most pressing questions in the history of religion: “Did Jesus exist at all?” Was he invented out of whole cloth for nefarious purposes by those seeking to control the masses? Or was Jesus such a shadowy figure-far removed from any credible historical evidence-that he bears no meaningful resemblance to the person described in the Bible? In Did Jesus Exist? historian and Bible expert Bart Ehrman confronts these questions, vigorously defends the historicity of Jesus, and provides a compelling portrait of the man from Nazareth. The Jesus you discover here may not be the Jesus you had hoped to meet-but he did exist whether we like it or not.

As a leading Bible expert, Ehrman’s supporters and critics alike have queried him about this nagging question and he has decided it’s time to put the issue to rest. Yes, the historical Jesus of Nazareth did exist.

Known as a master explainer with deep knowledge of the field, Ehrman methodically demolishes both the scholarly and popular “mythicist” arguments against the existence of Jesus. Marshaling evidence from within the Bible and the wider historical record of the ancient world, Ehrman tackles the key issues that surround the mythologies associated with Jesus and the early Christian movement. Throughout Did Jesus Exist? Ehrman establishes the criterion for any genuine historical investigation and provides a robust defense of the methods required to discover the Jesus of history.

Who was Jesus? Was he a political revolutionary? An apocalyptic prophet? A proto-Marxist? A Jewish cynic philosopher? The Son of God? After establishing the historicity of Jesus, Ehrman identifies the most historically reliable sources for best understanding Jesus’s mission and message and offers a compelling portrait of the person at the heart of the Christian tradition.

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