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Bart D. Ehrman, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies,University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBart Ehrman is the James A. Gray Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Withdegrees from Wheaton College (B.A.) and Princeton Theological Seminary(M.Div. and Ph.D., magna cum laude), he taught at Rutgers for four years before moving to UNC in 1988. During his tenure at UNC, he has garnerednumerous awards and prizes, including the Students’ Undergraduate TeachingAward (1993), the Ruth and Philip Hettleman Prize for Artistic and ScholarlyAchievement (1994), the Bowman and Gordon Gray Award for Excellence inTeaching (1998), and the James A. Gray Chair in Biblical Studies (2003).With a focus on early Christianity in its Greco-Roman environment and aspecial expertise in the textual criticism of the New Testament, Professor Ehrman has published dozens of book reviews and more than 20 scholarlyarticles for academic journals. He has authored or edited 16 books, including
The Monk and the Messiah: The Story of How the New Testament Came to beChanged
(San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2005);
Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2004);
Lost Christianities:The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
(New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2003);
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
(Oxford University Press, 1999);
The New Testament: A Historical Introductionto the Early Christian Writings
(Oxford, 1997; 3
rd
ed., 2004); and
The OrthodoxCorruption of Scripture
(Oxford, 1993). He is currently at work on a newcommentary on several non-canonical Gospels for the
Hermeneia Commentary
series, published by Fortress Press.Professor Ehrman is a popular lecturer, giving numerous talks each year for such groups as the Carolina Speakers Bureau, the UNC Program for theHumanities, the Biblical Archaeology Society, and select universities across thenation. He has served as the president of the Society of Biblical Literature,Southeast Region; book review editor of the
Journal of Biblical Literature
;editor of the Scholar’s Press Monograph Series
The New Testament in the Greek Fathers
; and co-editor of the E. J. Brill series
New Testament Tools and Studies
.Among his administrative responsibilities, he has served on the executivecommittee of the Southeast Council for the Study of Religion and has chairedthe New Testament textual criticism section of the Society of Biblical Religion,as well as serving as Director of Graduate Studies and Chair of the Departmentof Religious Studies at UNC.
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