Since then he has published extensively in the fields of New Testament and Early Christianity, having written or edited 21 books, numerous scholarly articles, and dozens of book reviews.
At UNC he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies.Ī graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois), Professor Ehrman received both his Masters of Divinity and PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary, where his 1985 doctoral dissertation was awarded magna cum laude. He came to UNC in 1988, after four years of teaching at Rutgers University.
Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. Why is it most people have never heard such things? This is the book that pastors, educators & anyone interested in the Bible have been waiting for-a compelling account of the central challenges faced when attempting to reconstruct Jesus' life & message.īart D. They've been the standard widespread views of scholars across a full spectrum of denominations & traditions. These aren't idiosyncratic perspectives of just one scholar. Established Christian doctrines-such as the suffering messiah, the divinity of Jesus & the trinity-were the inventions of still later theologians.Jesus, Paul, Matthew & John all represented fundamentally different religions.The New Testament contains books that were forged in the names of the apostles by Christian writers who lived decades later.The authors of the New Testament have diverging views about who Jesus was & how salvation works.Here Ehrman reveals what scholars have unearthed:
Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus left off, Jesus, Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches-& it's not what most people think.
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