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BART D. EHRMAN |
Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Phone Numbers:
(919)962-3940
FAX numbers:
(919)962-1567
E-Mail behrman@email.unc.edu
DEGREES AND HONORS
Ph.D. Princeton Theological Seminary (magna cum laude), 1985
MDiv. Princeton Theological Seminary, 1981
B.A. Wheaton College, Illinois (magna cum 1aude) 1978
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Religious Studies.
* James A. Gray Distinguished Professor, 2003-
* Department Chair, 2000 -
* Professor, 1999 -
* Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor, 1998-2001
* Director of Graduate Studies, 1996-99
* Associate Professor, 1994-99
* Assistant Professor, 1988-94
Duke University, Department of Religion
* Adjunct Professor, 2000 -
* Visiting Assistant Professor, 1991
Rutgers University, Department of Religion
* Lecturer at the Rank of Assistant Professor, 1985-88
* Lecturer at the Rank of Instructor, 1984-85
Princeton Theological Seminary
* Instructor in New Testament Greek and Exegesis, 1985
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT
New Testament Introduction; Jesus in Myth, Tradition, and History; The Birth of Christianity; Apocalypse Now and Then; Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early Christianity; Jesus in Scholarship and Film; The Life and Letters of Paul; Jesus and the Synoptics; The Gospel and Letters of John; The Problem of Suffering in the Biblical Traditions; Introduction to Hebrew Bible.
GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT
Problems and Methods in New Testament Studies; Early Christian Apocrypha; The Apostolic Fathers; The Rise of Anti-Judaism in Early Christianity; The Greek Apologists; Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early Christianity; Christianity in the Early Roman Empire; Readings in the Greco-Roman Religions; New Testament Textual Criticism; New Testament Greek and Exegesis.
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Editorial Board, New Testament Studies (2003- )
Editor, The New Testament in the Greek Fathers, monograph series published
by Scholars Press (Editorial board, 1988- ; Editor-in-Chief, 1991-97)
Co-Editor, New Testament Tools and Studies, monograph series published
by E. J. Brill (1993- )
Book Review Editor, Journal of Biblical Literature (Book Review Editor,
1997-99; Associate editor 1994-97)
Network Editor, Religious Studies Review in the areas of New Testament
and Hellenistic Languages, the Text and Canon of the New Testament (1988-94)
Editorial Board, Pericope: Scripture as Written and Read in Antiquity,
monograph series published by Van Gorcum & Co. (2001- )
Editorial Board, Studies and Documents, monograph series published by
Eerdmans (1995- )
Editorial Board, Critical Review of Books in Religion (1994-98)
Editorial Board, Textual Criticism: An Electronic Journal (1995- )
Advisory Board, Electronic New Testament Project (1995- )
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Graduate Council for the Study of Religion, Nominating Committee (2002- )
President, Society of Biblical Literature, Southeast Region (1996-97)
Vice-President and Program Chair, Society of Biblical Literature, Southeast
Region (1995-96)
Executive Committee, Southeast Council for the Study of Religion (1995-98)
Chair, New Testament Textual Criticism Section of the Society of Biblical Literature
(1990-96); Steering Committee (1996- )
International Steering Committee, North American Committee of the International
Greek New Testament Project, a project undertaken jointly by American and British
textual scholars, responsible for constructing a critical apparatus for the
Greek New Testament (1988- ); International Steering Committee (2000-)
Carolina Speakers Bureau (Group of faculty members who represent the university
as speakers at public functions; 1996- )
Society of Biblical Literature Council (the major policy-making body of the
Society) (1994-98)
Principal Researcher and Consultant, Endowment for Biblical Research Lexicon
Project (1992-2000)
Research Assistant, RSV Bible Translation Committee, Princeton, NJ (1987-88);
Consultant (1988-89)
Research Assistant, Princeton Epigraphy Project. The Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton, NJ (1986-87)
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
The New Testament: A Brief Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, in press.
The Apostolic Fathers. (Greek-English edition for the Loeb Classical Library) 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, in press.
Christianity in Late Antiquity: A Reader. Co-edited with Andrew Jacobs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii + 504.
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. P. xviii + 294.
*History Book of the Month Club Selection
Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It Into the New Testament.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. vi + 342.
*History Book of the Month Club Selection
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 274.
*History Book Club Selection
*Los Angeles Times 2000 Book of the Year award
*Translated into Spanish, Dutch, and Chinese
After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xii+ 436.
The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings: A Reader. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1998; Second edition, 2004. Pp. iv + 419.
*History Book Club Selection.
The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings.
Oxford University Press, 1997; Second edition, 2000; Third edition, 2004s. Pp.
xxxvi + 506.
* History Book of the Month Club Selection
The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the
Status Quaestionis. Studies and Documents 46; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
1995. Pp. xiv + 402. (Co-edited with Michael W. Holmes)
The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological
Controversies on the Text of the New Testament. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1993. Pp. xiv+ 314.
The Text of the Fourth Gospel in the Writings of Origen, vol. 1 ("Introduction, Text and Apparatus") SBLNTGF, 3; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992. Pp. x +499. (Co- authored with Gordon D. Fee and Michael W. Holmes)
Didymus the Blind and the Text of the Gospels; SBLNTGF, 1. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986. Pp. xii+ 288.
Books In Preparation:
Co-authored with Bruce Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Origin, Corruption, and Restoration, 4th edition (under contract with Oxford University Press, scheduled for completion 12/2004)
Commentary on second-century Gospels (Gospels of Peter, Infancy Thomas, Papyrus Egerton 2, Jewish-Christian Gospels, et al.), for Hermeneia Commentary Series (under contract with Fortress Press; scheduled for completion 10/2006).
Articles:
"A Leper in the Hands of an Angry Jesus," Festschrift for Gerald Hawthorne. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, forthcoming.
"Response to Charles Hedrick's Stalemate," Journal of Early Christian Studies 2 (2003) 155-163.
"The Use of the Church Fathers in New Testament Textual Criticism," The Bible As Book, ed. Scott McKendrick and Orlaith O'Sullivan. London: The British Library, 2003.
"Text and Interpretation: The Exegetical Significance of the 'Original' Text," TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, 5 (2000).
"Text and Transmission: The Historical Significance of the 'Altered' Text," TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, 5 (2000).
"A Critique of Encountering the New Testament by Walter A. Elwell and Robert W. Yarbrough," Perspectives in Religion 27 (2000) 253-62.
"The Text of the New Testament," in Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.
"Jesus as Apocalyptic Prophet," Perspectives in Religion, 26 (1999) 153-66.
"The Text of the Gospels at the End of the Second Century," in Acta Colloquii Lunelii: Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis. Ed. C. -B. Amphoux and D. C. Parker. New Testament Tools and Studies; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996; pp. 95-122.
"Manuscripts and Meaning: The Textual Criticism of the New Testament," for New Testament Interpretation Today. Ed. Joel Green. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996; pp. 127-45.
Translation of "Die griechischen Minuskeln des Neuen Testaments," by Barbara Aland and Kurt Wachtel, in The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis, ed. Bart D. Ehrman and Michael W. Holmes. Studies and Documents 46; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995; pp. 43-60.
"The Text as Window: New Testament Manuscripts and the Social History of Early Christianity," in The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis, ed. Bart D. Ehrman and Michael W. Holmes. Studies and Documents 46; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995; pp. 361-79.
"The Use and Significance of Patristic Evidence in New Testament Textual Criticism," in New Testament Textual Criticism, Exegesis, and Church History: A Discussion of Methods, eds. B. Aland and J. Delobel. Kampen, The Netherlands: Kok Pharos, 1994; pp. 118-35.
"Heracleon and the 'Western' Textual Tradition," New Testament
Studies, vol. 40 (1994) 465-86.
"Heracleon, Origen, and the Text of the Fourth Gospel," Vigiliae Christianae, vol. 47 (1993) 105-18.
"The Theodotians as Corruptors of Scripture," Studia Patristica, ed. Elizabeth A. Livingstone. Louvain: Peeters, 1993; pp. 46-51.
"The Cup, the Bread, and the Salvific Death of Jesus in Luke-Acts," Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers. Atlanta: Scholars, 1991; pp. 576-91.
"The Text of Mark in the Hands of the Orthodox," in Biblicaermeneutics in Historical Perspective: Essays in Honor of Karlfried Froehlich, ed. Mark Burrows and Paul Rorem. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991; pp. 19-31.
"Cephas and Peter," Journal of Biblical Literature, 109 (1990) 463-74.
"A Problem of Textual Circularity: The Alands on the Classification of New Testament Manuscripts," Biblica 70 (1989) 377-88.
"1 John 4:3 and the Orthodox Corruption of Scripture," Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, 79 (1988) 221-43.
"Jesus and the Adulteress," New Testament Studies, 34 (1988) 24-44.
"Methodological Developments in the Analysis and Classification of New Testament Documentary Evidence," Novum Testamentum, 29 (1987) 22-45.
"The Use of Group Profiles for the Classification of New Testament Documentary Evidence," Journal of Biblical Literature, 106 (1987) 465-86.
"The New Testament Canon of Didymus," Vigiliae Christianae, 37 (1983) 1-21.
"The Angel and the Agony: The Textual Problem of Luke 22:43-44," Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 45 (1983) 401-16 (co-authored with Mark A. Plunkett).
"Jesus' Trial Before Pilate: John 18:28-19:16," Biblical Theology Bulletin, 13 (1983) 124-31.
Edited Texts and Lists of Inscriptions:
"Priene Inscriptions: Texts and Lists," Princeton: Institute for Advanced
Study, 1988 (co-edited with Neil Elliot and Donald McCabe).
"Klazomenai Inscriptions: Texts and Lists," Princeton: Institute for Advanced Study, 1986 (co-edited with James Brownson and Donald McCabe).
"Samoa Inscriptions: Texts and Lists," Princeton: Institute for Advanced Study, 1986 (co-edited with James Brownson and Donald McCabe).
Courses on Audio and Video Tape:
"From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity" (24 lectures); The Teaching Company, forthcoming.
"Lost Christianitics: The Struggle for Authentication in the Early Church" (24 lectures); The Teaching Company. December, 2002.
"Introduction to the New Testament" (24 lectures); The Teaching Company. January, 2000.
"The Historical Jesus" (24 Lectures); The Teaching Company. July 2000.
Book Reviews and Book Notes
Published in Journal of Biblical Literature; Critical Review of Books in Religion; Religious Studies Review; Bible Review; The American Historical Society; Theology Today; Patristics; Catholic Biblical Quarterly; Currents in Contemporary Christology; Princeton Seminary Bulletin.
INVITED LECTURES/TALKS
Cornell University (2003)
Loyola Marymount University (2000, 2003)
Southeast Louisiana State University (The Matheney Lecutre, 2003)
University of North Carolina, Wilmington (2002)
Lancaster Theological Seminary (The Englert Lecture, 2002)
Wake Forest, The Divinity School (2002)
Yale University (New Testament Colloquium, 2001)
University of Birmingham, U.K. (1998, New Testament Colloquium; 2001)
Hendrix College (The Steele Center Lecture, 2001)
Augusta State University (The Cullum Lectures, 2001)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (College Lights Lectures, 2000)
University of South Carolina (The Charleton Hall Lectures, 2000)
Oberlin College (1999)
Duke University (1991; the Kenneth Clark Lectures, 1997)
Baylor University (1997)
Union Theological Seminary (1997)
Princeton Theological Seminary (Viva Vox Scriptura: Symposium on Biblical Exegesis,
1990)
RECENT ACADEMIC/CONFERENCE PAPERS (Past five years):
"A New Edition of the Apostolic Fathers for the Loeb Classical Library," International Patristics Conference. Oxford, UK; August 2003.
"Too Good To Be False? A Text Critic Looks at the Secret Gospel of Mark," Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. Toronto; November 2002.
"Through the Looking Glass to the Original Text: Alice Liddell, Westcott, Hort, and Other Victorian Textual Scholars." Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. Nashville, TN; November 2000.
"The Corruption of the Fathers," Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. Boston, MA; November 1999.
"From Jesus to Christ," Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. Boston, MA; November 1999.
"Harnack, Marcion, and the Jews," Oxford Patristics Conference. Oxford,
UK; July 1999.
"Adolph von Harnack's Marcion in Historical Context," Society of Biblical
Literature Annual Meeting. Orlando, FL; November 1998.
"Encountering the New Testament: A Critical Evaluation," Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. Orlando, FL; November 1998.
"The Use of the Church Fathers for New Testament Textual Criticism," Textual Criticism Conference. Birmingham, England; May 1998.
"Patristic Evidence and the Text of the New Testament," Scriptorium Conference. Hereford, England; May 1998.
RECENT PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES (past five years)
"The Discoveries of Early Christianity." Two lectures for the Program in the Humanities and Human Values. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 2003.
"Early Christianity and Its Apocryphal Scriptures." Ten lectures for the Biblical Archaeology Society. June 2003.
"Lost Christianities: The Battles for Truth and the Scriptures We Never Knew." Ten lectures for the Summer Vacation College, Biblical Archaeology Society. St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford University, July 2002; and St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN; July 2001.
"The Quest for the Historical Jesus." Four lectures for Program in the Humanities and Human Values. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Seminar given four times; 2001-02.
"Writings Outside the Canon: Recent Discoveries of Ancient Texts." Three lectures for the Biblical Archaeology Society. Washington, DC.; September 2000.
"Jesus and the Beginnings of Christianity." Seven lectures for the UNC Alumni Trip to the Holy Land; April 2000.
"Early Christian Manuscripts and the History of the Canon." Three lectures for the Biblical Archaeology Society. Ft. Lauderdale Florida; April 1999.
"The Historical Jesus in Modern Scholarship." Ten lectures for the Summer Vacation College, Biblical Archaeology Society. St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN.; June 1999.
"The Text and Canon of the New Testament." Three lectures for the Biblical Archaeology Society Seminar, Nashville, TN; April 1999.
"Early Christian Mansucripta, Forgeries, and Canon Lists." Three lectures for the Biblical Archaeology Society Seminar, Austin, TX; September 1998.
"Ancient Mansuciipts and Early Christian Studies." Ten lectures for
the Summer Vacation College, Biblical Archaeology Society. Guildiord College,
Greensboro, NC; June 1998.
"Apocalypse and Millennium Now and Then." Four lectures for the Summer Vacation College, Program in the Humanities and Human Values, UNC-CH; June 1998.
OTHER LECTURES
For the following groups/venues: The Biblical Archaeology Society; UNC-Chapel Hill Program in the Humanities and Human Values; National Humanities Center; Triangle Institute for Jewish Studies; B'nai B'rith Institute for Judaism; various local and state-wide church and civic groups.
RADIO and TELEVISION
"Jesus of Nazareth, CNN.
"The New Testament," Opus TV (Wales).
"Judas Iscariot," History Channel.
"Pagans and Christians," Soundings. National Public Radio.
"The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture." Soundings. National Public Radio.
"Who Wrote the Bible?" "Mysteries of the Bible," A &
E Network.
"The Last Days of Jesus," "Mysteries of the Bible," A &
E Network.
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
James A. Gray Distinguished Professorship, Dept. of Religious Studies, UNC Chapel Hill (2003- )
Society of Biblical Literature, Research and Publications Grant (for "Apostolic Fathers," with the Loeb Classical Library), 2000
University Research Council Research Grant (for "Apostolic Fathers," with the Loeb Classical Library), 2000
Bowman and Gordon Gray Professorship (Awarded for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching), 1998-2001
Brandes Seminar Course Development Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997. University Research Council Publication Grant (for "After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity"), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997.
University Research Council Research Grant (for "After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity"), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997.
Arts and Sciences Foundation Research Development Grant University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995.
Philip and Ruth Hettlemnnn Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994.
John Lupton Foundation Grant for Course Development, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, 1994.
Brandes Seminar Course Development Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994.
Undergraduate Students' Teaching Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993.
University Research Council Grant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (for "The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture"), 1993.
Society of Biblical Literature Research and Publication Grant (for the International Greek New Testament Project), 1992.
Society of Biblical Literature Research and Publication Grant (for "The Text of the Fourth Gospel in the Writings of Origen"), 1991.
Faculty Fellowship, Institute for the Arts and the Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1991.
University Research Council Grant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (for "The Text of the Fourth Gospel in the Writings of Origen"), 1990.
UNC Foundation Junior Faculty Development Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (for "The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture"), 1990.
John Lupton Foundation Grant for Course Development, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990.
Summer Faculty Fellowship, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1989.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas
Society of Biblical Literature
North American Patristics Society
Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill