Bart D. Ehrman

The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian PolemicsForgery and Counter-forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics is the first major contemporary work on forgery in early Christian literature. It examines the motivation and function behind Christian literary forgeries....

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A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and ConstantineIn his staggeringly popular work of fiction, Dan Brown states up front that the historical information in the The Da Vinci Code is all factually accurate. But is this claim true? As historian Bart D. Ehrman shows in this informative and witty book, The Da Vinci...

The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New TestamentIn a study that explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, Ehrman traces how early struggles between "e;heresy"e; and "e;orthodoxy"e; affected the...