Bart Ehrman Biography

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He began his teaching career at Rutgers University and joined the faculty in the Department of Religious Studies at UNC in 1988 where he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department.
Professor Ehrman completed his M.Div. and Ph.D. degrees at Princeton Seminary where his 1985 doctoral dissertation was awarded magna cum laude. An expert on the New Testament and the history of Early Christianity has written or edited thirty books numerous scholarly articles and dozens of book reviews. In addition to works of scholarship Professor Ehrman has written several textbooks for undergraduate students and trade books for general audiences. Five of his books have been on the New York Times Bestseller list: Misquoting Jesus; God’s Problem; Jesus Interrupted; Forged; and How Jesus Became God. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages.
Professor Ehrman has served as President of the Southeast Region of the Society of Biblical literature and chair of the New Testament textual criticism section of the Society. Among his editorial positions he has served as associate editor for the Journal of Early Christian Studies 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 international journal of early Christian studies Vigiliae Christianae and area editor (early Christianity) for the Encyclopedia of Ancient History.

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