Bart D. Ehrman

Bart D. Ehrman
Bart D. Ehrman
	Ehrman in 2012
Born	Bart Denton Ehrman; October 5, 1955; Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.
Spouse	Sarah Beckwith
Awards	Religious Liberty Award, American Humanist Association, 2011; Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2009–10, 2018–19; John William Pope Center Spirit of Inquiry Teaching Award, 2008;
Academic background
Education	Moody Bible Institute; Wheaton College (BA, 1978); Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv, 1981; PhD, 1985);
Thesis	The Gospel Text of Didymus (1985)
Doctoral advisor	Bruce M. Metzger
Academic work
Discipline	Biblical studies
Institutions	Rutgers University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
Main interests	Textual criticism of the New Testament; Historical Jesus; Early Christian literature; Apostolic Fathers;
Notable works	Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium (1999); Misquoting Jesus (2005); Jesus, Interrupted (2009); Forged (2011); How Jesus Became God (2014); The Triumph of Christianity (2018); Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (2020); Journeys to Heaven and Hell (2022); Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End (2023);
Website	bartehrman.com

Bart Denton Ehrman (born October 5, 1955) is an American New Testament scholar whose research focuses on the textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. He is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author or editor of more than 30 books, including six New York Times bestsellers, and has created nine lecture series with The Great Courses. Ehrman also runs a membership blog whose proceeds support charities that address hunger and homelessness. As of March 2025, the blog had reportedly raised more than $3 million.