Bart D. Ehrman Audio & Video

Written for secular historians of religion and believers alike, How Jesus Became God will engage anyone interested in the historical developments that led to the affirmation at the heart of Christianity: Jesus was, and is, God.

Ehrman takes you on a journey to the ancient world and the forgery battles that have raged through the centuries.

Who was Jesus?

Bart Ehrman visits Google Cambridge on April 7, 2011 to discuss his new book, Forged. From the book's description: "It is often said, even by critical scholars who should know better, that "writing in the name of another" was widely accepted in antiquity."

Bart Ehrman is renowned for his contributions to the field of religious studies, focusing on New Testament interpretation and the history of ancient Christianity in the first three centuries AD.

In the first centuries after Christ, there was no "official" New Testament. Early Christians read and fervently followed many more Scriptures than we have today.

The New Testament tells the extraordinary and moving story of the life of Christ and the founding of His Church. This generous selection from the texts which lie at the root of two thousand years of European civilization...

In a world where Christianity has been, in the words of Professor Bart D. Ehrman, "the most powerful religious, political, social, cultural, economic, and intellectual institution in the history of Western Civilization"...

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The New Testament stands unchallenged, in the words of Professor Bart D. Ehrman, not only as the "'bestseller' of all time," but also as the most important "book—or collection of books—in the history of Western civilization."