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Bart D. Ehrman
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Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus and Jesus, Interrupted. His latest book, Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are, is now available from HarperOne.

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Did Jesus Exist?

(5295) Comments | Posted March 20, 2012 | 7:25 AM

In a society in which people still claim the Holocaust did not happen, and in which there are resounding claims that the American president is, in fact, a Muslim born on foreign soil, is it any surprise to learn that the greatest figure in the history of Western civilization, the...

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What Didn't Make It Into The Bible?

(1523) Comments | Posted July 21, 2011 | 1:23 PM

Sometimes important religious discoveries are literally unearthed, giving us previously unavailable artifacts and texts -- such as the discovery of the so-called Gnostic Gospels in 1945 or the discovery of the Gospel of Judas more recently. At other times modern readers re-discover texts that have long been available, documents, for...

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Who Wrote The Bible and Why It Matters

(4422) Comments | Posted March 25, 2011 | 8:38 PM

Apart from the most rabid fundamentalists among us, nearly everyone admits that the Bible might contain errors -- a faulty creation story here, a historical mistake there, a contradiction or two in some other place. But is it possible that the problem is worse than that -- that the Bible...

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