Even skeptical scholars who don’t believe that Jesus really worked miracles acknowledge that, during his lifetime, he had a reputation as a healer and an exorcist. The numerous reports of Jesus’ ...

For years, nonbelievers rejoiced at the publication of new books by New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman, relishing the professor’s pugnacious attacks on the cherished beliefs of evangelical Christians.

(RNS) The New Testament scholar wonders what happened between the time Jesus died and the time the gospel writers wrote about him. (RNS) New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman, a professor of religious ...

A religious studies scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has become a hot-selling author, thanks to his accessible account of how scribes changed the Bible as they reproduced it.

(RNS) — In 'The Triumph of Christianity,' the New Testament scholar tries to answer a simple question: How did 20 Jesus followers come to convert most of the Western world in the space of 300 years?

With his typical humor, passion, and vivacity, Ehrman (How Jesus Became God) explores the ways that memory shapes, distorts, changes, and preserves the stories of Jesus passed along by the Christian ...

Despite their disagreements, both believing and skeptical Bible scholars can agree on certain things about the life of Jesus. One of these is that, during his day, Jesus had a reputation as a ...

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I’ve been a fan of Bart Ehrman’s work for a while now. He’s a New Testament scholar who has an uncanny ability to make the consensus of biblical scholars understandable and interesting. He has five ...

Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife. By Bart Ehrman.Simon & Schuster; 352 pages; $28. Oneworld; £20. WHERE WOULD Christianity be without heaven and hell? Where, for that matter, would art and ...

New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a superstar author of 30 books on Christianity. He is known to his legion of ...