He's big time, a go-to 'professional expert', as ubiquitous now as Bishop Spong, Elaine Pagels, Dom Crossan, and N.T. Well-known among scholars, he's also become an ubiquitous presence in the talk-show circuit, in book-signing tours, on the radio, in documentaries that profile the latest reconstruction(s) of Jesus, and in all manner of media. His is on an impressive (and lucrative) streak. He is without question the best-selling author in the field of New Testament studies today, penning one successful (and usually provocative-at least to the evangelical mindset) book on Christian origins after another. After a long industrious, prolific, and distinguished career teaching the historical Jesus, he now finds himself in a most enviable position, one that other lesser-known New Testament scholars drooly aspire to. Well … as close to a rock star as a geeky Ivy League academic with tenure can get, anyway.

So why do many people get excited over any work by Ehrman? León Santiago opines:īart Ehrman is a rock star.

In March of 2012, Ehrman published a book giving his reasons for believing Jesus actually existed, entitled Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth. The first book describing his portrait of the historical Jesus was his 2000 Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium, in which he heavily (but not entirely) followed Albert Schweitzer in arguing that Jesus was an apocalyptist who believed that cataclysmic end-time events were shortly going to occur. Īlthough skeptical of classical Christian theological claims, Bart Ehrman does not subscribe to the 'mythicist' theory that Jesus of Nazareth was an entirely fictional person. His books are mainly about the Bible and Scriptures and often contain textual criticism.īart Ehrman was an evangelical Christian as a teen, however through his hard, careful study of the Bible, along with the problem of evil, he now identifies himself as an agnostic. He is currently Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the same said university. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ehrman (1955–) is an American New Testament scholar and author, and the James A. How he acquired his reputation as such a prominent scholar I do not know.īart D. The books of his I’ve read are very light-weight, often demonstrating an unprofessional ignorance of the current scholarship, riddled with logical fallacies, and sometimes containing fundamental errors of fact. “ ”Ehrman’s Orthodox Corruption of Scripture was interesting but apart from that I have never understood why so many people seem to get excited over any work by Ehrman.

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