Bart D. Ehrman Books in Order
Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a position he has held since 1988. He previously taught at Rutgers University for four years. Professor Ehrman served as Director of Graduate Studies and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at UNC. A graduate of Wheaton College, he earned his Masters of Divinity and PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary, where his 1985 dissertation was awarded magna cum laude. As a leading expert in New Testament and Early Christianity, Ehrman has published 21 books, numerous articles, and book reviews. His notable works include The Apostolic Fathers for the Loeb Classical Library and two New York Times bestsellers: God’s Problem and Misquoting Jesus. Ehrman's areas of expertise encompass the historical Jesus, early Christian apocrypha, apostolic fathers, and New Testament manuscript tradition. He has held prominent roles in the Society of Biblical Literature, including President of the Southeast Region and Chair of the New Testament section.
Bibliography verified: January 2026
Book Series by Bart D. Ehrman
- #1AmazonDidymus the Blind & the Text of the Gospels(1986)
- #2AmazonThe Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament(1993)
- #3AmazonThe Text of the New Testament In Contemporary Research(1995)
- #4AmazonThe New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings(1996)
- #5AmazonThe New Testament And Other Early Christian Writings(1997)
- #6AmazonAfter the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity(1998)
- #7AmazonJesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium(1999)
- #8AmazonThe Historical Jesus(2000)
- #9AmazonLost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew(2002)
- #10AmazonLost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It Into the New Testament(2003)
- #11AmazonChristianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 CE: A Reader(2003)
- #12AmazonFrom Jesus to Constantine(2004)
- #13AmazonTruth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene & Constantine(2004)
- #14AmazonA Brief Introduction to the New Testament(2004)
- #15AmazonThe Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (With: Bruce M. Metzger)(2005)
- #16AmazonWhose Word Is It? The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why(2005)
- #17AmazonMisquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why(2005)
- #18AmazonThe Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed(2006)
- #19AmazonStudies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament(2006)
- #20AmazonPeter, Paul & Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History & Legend(2006)
- #21AmazonGod's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer(2008)
- #22AmazonJesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them(2009)
- #23AmazonThe Reliability of the New Testament(2011)
- #24AmazonForged: Writing in the Name of God(2011)
- #25AmazonThe Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations(2011)
- #26AmazonDid Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth(2012)
- #27AmazonForgery and Counter-forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics(2012)
- #28AmazonThe Other Gospels: Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament(2013)
- #29AmazonThe History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon(2013)
- #30AmazonThe Greatest Controversies of Early Christian History(2013)
- #31AmazonThe Bible: A Historical and Literary Introduction(2013)
- #32AmazonHow Jesus Became God : the Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee(2014)
- #33AmazonJesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior(2016)
- #34AmazonThe Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World(2017)
- #35AmazonHeaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife(2020)
- #36Amazon36 Big Ideas(2020)
- #37AmazonAfter the New Testament: The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers(2020)
- #38AmazonCan We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus?(2020)
- #39AmazonJourneys to Heaven and Hell(2022)
- #40AmazonArmageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End(2023)
- #41AmazonLove Thy Stranger(2026)
About Bart D. Ehrman
Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a position he has held since 1988. He previously taught at Rutgers University for four years. Professor Ehrman served as Director of Graduate Studies and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at UNC. A graduate of Wheaton College, he earned his Masters of Divinity and PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary, where his 1985 dissertation was awarded magna cum laude. As a leading expert in New Testament and Early Christianity, Ehrman has published 21 books, numerous articles, and book reviews. His notable works include The Apostolic Fathers for the Loeb Classical Library and two New York Times bestsellers: God’s Problem and Misquoting Jesus. Ehrman's areas of expertise encompass the historical Jesus, early Christian apocrypha, apostolic fathers, and New Testament manuscript tradition. He has held prominent roles in the Society of Biblical Literature, including President of the Southeast Region and Chair of the New Testament section.
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