CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (RNS) As Christians prepare to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, Bart Ehrman, an agnostic, convincingly demonstrates there was a historical Jesus. As for the "mythicists" who ...

It’s usually clear to Bart Ehrman who loves him and who hates him. Evangelical Christians have been raking Ehrman over the coals for years for his rejection of biblical inerrancy—and atheists and ...

Renowned scholar Bart Ehrman answers wide-ranging questions about the historical Jesus, early gospel sources, and the origins of New Testament stories. He explains why historians widely accept Jesus' ...

UNC-Chapel Hill religion historian Bart Ehrman's latest book, mounting a historical proof for the existence of Jesus, is so convincingly argued that many readers will conclude Ehrman also proves many ...

Even skeptical scholars who don’t believe that Jesus really worked miracles acknowledge that, during his lifetime, he had a reputation as a healer and an exorcist. The numerous reports of Jesus’ ...

So, did Jesus really exist? With his new book, Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth, Bart Ehrman, historian and professor of religious studies at the University of North ...

Christian principles are engrained in American society, but the text in which those values are based is cluttered with mistakes, omissions and intentional changes, said scholar Bart D. Ehrman. Ehrman, ...

For years, nonbelievers rejoiced at the publication of new books by New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman, relishing the professor’s pugnacious attacks on the cherished beliefs of evangelical Christians.

When Bart Ehrman was a young Evangelical Christian, he wanted to know how God became a man, but now, as an agnostic and historian of early Christianity, he wants to know how a man became God. When and ...

A religious studies scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has become a hot-selling author, thanks to his accessible account of how scribes changed the Bible as they reproduced it.

Cody Parks is a UPS driver from Wilkes County, in rural western North Carolina. Last month, he came to Chapel Hill to hear the last lecture by a man who studies small fragments of ancient Greek ...

It’s usually clear to Bart Ehrman who loves him and who hates him. Evangelical Christians have been raking Ehrman over the coals for years for his rejection of biblical inerrancy—and atheists and ...