Bart D. Ehrman

Bart Denton Ehrman (born October 5, 1955) is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, the origins and development of early Christianity. He has written and edited 30 books, including three college textbooks. He has also authored six works included in The New York Times Best Seller list. He is currently the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Biography.
He is a 1978 graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, where he received his bachelor's degree. He received his Ph.D. (in 1985) and M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he studied textual criticism of the Bible, development of the New Testament canon and New Testament apocrypha under Bruce Metzger. Both baccalaureate and doctorate were conferred "magna cum laude".
Ehrman has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1988, after four years of teaching at Rutgers University. At UNC he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. Ehrman currently serves as co-editor of the series "New Testament Tools, Studies, and Documents" (E. J. Brill), co-editor-in-chief for the journal "Vigiliae Christianae", and on several other editorial boards for journals and monographs. Ehrman formerly served as President of the Southeast Region of the Society of Biblical Literature, chair of the New Testament textual criticism section of the Society, book review editor of the "Journal of Biblical Literature", and editor of the monograph series "The New Testament in the Greek Fathers" (Scholars Press)
In 2006 he appeared on "The Colbert Report" and "The Daily Show", to promote his book "Misquoting Jesus", and in 2009 reappeared on "The Colbert Report" with the release of "Jesus, Interrupted". Ehrman has appeared on the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, A&amp;E, Dateline NBC, CNN, and NPR's "Fresh Air" and his writings have been featured in "Time", "Newsweek", "The New York Times", "The New Yorker", and "The Washington Post"