Bart Ehrman: 19 books
The Apocryphal Gospels
Texts and Translations
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Bart Ehrman--the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus and a recognized authority on the early Christian Church--and Zlatko Plese here offer a groundbreaking, multi-lingual edition of the Apocryphal Gospels, one that breathes new life into the non-canonical texts that were once nearly...
Did Jesus Exist?
The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
In Did Jesus Exist? historian and Bible expert Bart Ehrman confronts the question, "Did Jesus exist at all?" Ehrman vigorously defends the historical Jesus, identifies the most historically reliable sources for best understanding Jesus’ mission and message, and offers a compelling portrait...
Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code:A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine
A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
In 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 Code is filled with numerous historical...
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot : A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed
A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
The recent National Geographic special on the Gospel of Judas was a major media event introducing to tens of millions of viewers one of the most important biblical discoveries of modern times. Now a leading historian of the early church Bart Ehrman offers the first comprehensive account of the newly...
Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics
The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
"Arguably the most distinctive feature of the early Christian literature," writes Bart Ehrman, "is the degree to which it was forged." The Homilies and Recognitions of Clement; Paul's letters to and from Seneca; Gospels by Peter, Thomas, and Philip; Jesus' correspondence with Abgar, letters by Peter...
Misquoting Jesus
The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
When world-class biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the...
Lost Christianities:The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2003
The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine,...
Jesus : Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1999
Few biographical works spark passions as intensely as do interpretations of the life of Jesus. In this highly accessible book Bart Ehrman reviews the latest textual and archeological research into Jesus's life and the history of first-century Palestine and draws a fascinating controversial portrait...
Jesus Before the Gospels
How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today examines oral tradition and its role in shaping the stories about Jesus we encounter in the New Testament—and ultimately in our understanding of Christianity.
Throughout...
How Jesus Became God
The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.
The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed...
by Bart D. Ehrman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Bart Ehrman, author of the highly popular Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code and Lost Christianities, here takes readers on another engaging tour of the early Christian church, illuminating the lives of three of Jesus' most intriguing followers: Simon Peter, Paul of Tarsus, and Mary Magdalene....
Forged
Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Bart D. Ehrman, the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus, Interrupted and God’s Problem reveals which books in the Bible’s New Testament were not passed down by Jesus’s disciples, but were instead forged by other hands—and why this centuries-hidden scandal is far more significant than...
The Triumph of Christianity
How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
The “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.
How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official...
Jesus, Interrupted
Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
The problems with the Bible that New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman discussed in his bestseller Misquoting Jesus—and on The Daily Show with John Stewart, NPR, and Dateline NBC, among others—are expanded upon exponentially in his latest book: Jesus, Interrupted. This New York Times bestseller reveals...
12