Bart Ehrman

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Author and lecturer, agnostic-atheist.

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New blog post - Early Christian Reactions to "Heresies" in a Nutshell

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New blog post - "The Good Done By Christianity to Our World"

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A New Proof of the Resurrection. What Do YOU Think? 🧐

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New blog post - "Should You Say It Like You Mean It? Those Inoffensive Critical Scholars..."

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New blog post - "And an Ancient Christian Deceived Deceiver (i.e. Forger)"

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New blog post - "An Ancient Apocalypse among the Apostolic Fathers: The Shepherd of Hermas"

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New blog post - "From Eternal Torment to Styles of Greek to the Dating of Ignatius: Interesting Readers' Questions"

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Did scribes of the New Testament ever make astoundingly bad errors when making a copy? Read some thoughts in today's blog post!

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One of the best ways to follow the proto-orthodox line of reasoning for what to include in the canon of the new testament is to consider the earliest surviving canonical list that is known as the Muratorian Canon.

Read more about it here: https://t.co/4ubTDifPpq

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DOES JESUS GET RID OF THE LAW? (*link to FULL EPISODE - https://t.co/sIivcgifkA) #jesus #religion #bible #bartehrman #christianity

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There's no way to put a precise date on the canonical process, but it is worth noting that the formation of the canon was a long, drawn-out process.  In today's post I share some thoughts on some of the key issues of the late second century.

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Here is a translation (from the Coptic) of a section of the intriguing apocryphal Gospel, The History of Joseph the Carpenter, by my colleague Zlatko Plese, as found in our book "The Other Gospels". Have you read it?

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MATTHEW'S JESUS AND THE TRUE PATH TO SALVATION (*link to FULL EPISODE - https://t.co/Lc8eUbAeFN) #jesus #religion #bible #bartehrman #christianity

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I was recently asked by a blog reader about an intriguing but little known apocryphal Gospel called "The History of Joseph the Carpenter", an account of Jesus’s (alleged) father “according to the flesh” Joseph told by Jesus himself ...

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SHEEP, GOATS, AND WHAT BRINGS PEOPLE INTO GOD'S KINGDOM (*link to FULL EPISODE - https://t.co/Lc8eUbAeFN) #jesus #religion #bible #bartehrman #christianity

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In today's post I continue my reflections on the issues connected with fixing a canon of Scripture in early Christianity, drawing from excerpts of my book "Lost Christianities".

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I provided a very brief overview of key aspects of how we got the canon of the NT in my previous two posts.  Now I want to move into a deeper topic found in my book "Lost Christianities". Have you read it?

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JESUS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST ON REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS (*link to FULL EPISODE - https://t.co/lZNnTGrcGy) #jesus #religion #bible #bartehrman #christianity

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In yesterday's post I discussed the factors that motivated Christians to come up with a canon of the NT.  Now I can talk about how they decided which books should belong and how the process played out as leaders debated over time.

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In previous posts I discussed how we got the canon of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Next we talk about the formation of the New Testament canon - why these 27 books? Who decided? When? On what grounds?

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