He often writes and discusses Christian apologetics and has debated against prominent atheists and skeptics, including Christopher Hitchens, Peter Singer, Daniel Dennett, Michael Shermer, and Bart Ehrman.

Ehrman concludes from this that Mary and the others could therefore be thought of as " apostles sent to the apostles ," a title that Mary Magdalene herself came to bear in the Middle Ages ( Latin: apostola apostolorum ).

Bart D. Ehrman argues that apocalyptic parts of the Bible, including the New Testament, see suffering as due to cosmic evil forces, that God for mysterious reasons has given power over the world, but which will soon be defeated and things will be set right.

The first clickable web ad ( which later came to be known by the term " banner ad ") was sold by Global Network Navigator ( GNN ) in 1993 to Heller, Ehrman, White and McAuliffe, a now defunct law firm with a Silicon Valley office.

D ' Souza has debated several atheists and critics of Christianity at programs at various universities, including Peter Singer, Bart Ehrman, Christopher Hitchens, and David Silverman, on issues including whether there can be morality without God, how a benevolent God can allow suffering, the concept of religion in general, and whether Christianity is good for America, among others.

“ The saying of 5: 2 − 4, for example, appears to be from the lost Gospel of Peter ,” says Bart Ehrman in Lecture 15 of his audiobook, After The New Testament.

Both conservative Christian scholar Graham Stanton and agnostic Bible scholar Bart Ehrman have asserted that virtually all scholars involved with historical Jesus research believe his existence can be established using documentary and other evidence ; however, scholars such as Paula Fredriksen, Robert Funk and E. P. Sanders hold that much of the material about him in the New Testament should not be taken at face value as it is driven by theological agendas.

Herman, Moulin, Ehrman and Lanterman have published reports based on simulated data, which suggest that low frequency passive radars ( using FM radio transmissions ) could provide target classification in addition to tracking information.

Bart D. Ehrman referred to a work by an early anonymous Christian writer ( perhaps Hippolytus, a Christian leader in Rome around 200 AD ) who in a commentary on the Old Testament book Song of Songs, wrote that Jesus first appeared to the women at the tomb.

Riccardo Ehrman is sitting on the floor of the stage with the table just behind him.

Both Riccardo Ehrman, the Berlin correspondent of the ANSA news agency, and German tabloid reporter Peter Brinkmann, were sitting on the front row at the press conference, and claimed to have asked when the regulations would come into force.

Marcionism is discussed in recent textbooks on early Christianity, such as Lost Christianities by Bart Ehrman.

Bart Ehrman states that the crucifixion of Jesus on the orders of Pontius Pilate is the most certain element about him.

As an example, Bart Ehrman states that gnostic writings of the Gospel of Thomas ( part of the Nag Hammadi library ) have very little value in historical Jesus research, because the author of that gospel placed no importance on the physical experiences of Jesus ( e. g. his crucifixion ) or the physical existence of believers, and was only interested in the secret teachings of Jesus rather than any physical events.

" vs. Bart Ehrman, January, 2009, aboard ship on the Celebrity Century

* Gio Wiederhold and John Ehrman, " Inferred SYNTAX and SEMANTICS of PL / S ", Proceedings of the SIGPLAN symposium on Languages for system implementation 1971, in SIGPLAN Notices 6 ( 10 ) October 1971

Several of Ehrman's earlier books had been very popular in humanist and secularist circles, but as Ehrman predicted this book was criticized by both atheists and fundamentalist Christians, most notably by Richard Carrier on his blog.

Bart Ehrman, in an interview with the Fortean Times, was similarly asked for his views on the work of Freke and Gandy.

According to Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.

Because of this, Ehrman argues, The Gospel of Thomas is likely composed by a Gnostic some time in the early 2nd century.

Text critics such as Bart D. Ehrman have proposed that some of these textual variants and interpolations were theologically motivated.

Ehrman uses this omission to support the notion that the title " Son of God " is not used of Jesus until his baptism, and that Mark reflects an adoptionist view.

In The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, popular author and text critic Bart D. Ehrman argues that the Adoptionist Theology may date back almost to the time of Jesus and his view is shared by many other scholars.

" Scholar Bart D. Ehrman says that this confusion is because in Greek ( the language of the gospel ) the word again is ambiguous.

Ehrman quotes the writer: " Christ showed himself to the ( male ) apostles and said to them, ' It is I who appeared to these women and I who wanted to send them to you as apostles.

The Ehrman Mansion is a summer home built by a former Wells Fargo president in Sugar Pine Point and is now a state park.

Ehrman acknowledges many of Marcion's ideas are very close to what is known today as " Gnosticism ", especially its rejection of the Jewish God, the Old Testament, and the material world, and his elevation of Paul as the primary apostle.

In the PBS documentary, From Jesus to Christ, narrated by Elaine Pagels, Ehrman, Karen King, and other secular New Testament scholars, Marcion's role in the formation of the New Testament canon is discussed as pivotal, and the first to explicitly state it.

Bart D. Ehrman states that the existence of Jesus and his crucifixion by the Romans is attested to by a wide range of sources, including Josephus and Tacitus.

According to Bart Ehrman, this criterion is included in the analysis of contextual credibility, because he believes that Jesus and Nicodemus were speaking in Aramaic.

Jesus ' teachings would later diverge from John's apocalyptic vision ( though it depends which scholarly view is adopted ; according to Ehrman and Sanders, the apocalyptic vision was the core of Jesus ' teaching ) which warned of " the wrath to come ," as " the axe is laid to the root of the trees " and those who do not bear " good fruit " are " cut down and thrown into the fire.

His daughter, Penelope Ann Le Patourel, is the wife of Sir William Ehrman.

Forged is a book written by biblical scholar, Bart D. Ehrman which attempts to analyze the historical accuracy of the Christian Bible.

In his book, Ehrman points out numerous inconsistencies which he finds within the New Testament which appear to support many of his claims, such as the fact that in Acts 4: 13 the statement is made that both Peter and John were illiterate, yet in later years entire books of the Bible were then alleged to have been written by them.

According to Bart D. Ehrman: " Mary ( Magdalene ) is accorded a high status among the apostles of Jesus.

Robert Funk and Crossan represent this view, one that Eddy and Boyd write is increasingly common among New Testament scholars, particularly those associated with the Westar Institute's Jesus Seminar and Jewish New Testament scholars such as Paula Fredriksen or Amy-Jill Levine. Within this camp there remains a significant gulf between those who hold Schweitzer's view that Jesus had apocalyptic end-time beliefs such as Bart Ehrman and Paula Fredriksen, and those who do not hold this such as Marcus Borg.

Professor of Religious Studies Bart D. Ehrman argues that different parts of the Bible give different answers.

Bart D. Ehrman, a New Testament scholar and professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has criticised the English Wikisource's project to create a user-generated translation of The Bible saying " Democratization isn't necessarily good for scholarship.

* Ehrman, Bart D. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why.

* Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, by Bart Ehrman

Ehrman says that this raises questions about the authenticity of the dialogue, the meaning of the words, and, therefore, the use of the phrase.

Bart Ehrman suggests in his book Misquoting Jesus that the King James Version would not have included the passage if Desiderius Erasmus had not given in to pressure to include it in the Textus Receptus even though he doubted its authenticity.

Bart Ehrman argues that there are differences in the composition of the Greek within the Gospel, such as breaks and inconsistencies in sequence, repetitions in the discourse, as well as passages that he believes clearly do not belong to their context, and believes that these suggest redaction.

* Baird, Joseph L and Ehrman, Radd K. The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen.

According to Bart D. Ehrman, " These scribal additions are often found in late medieval manuscripts of the New Testament, but not in the manuscripts of the earlier centuries.

* Ehrman, Bart D. ( 2011 ).

: A Debate between William Lane Craig and Bart D. Ehrman ( transcript ) ( video )

Bart D. Ehrman says this was a corrupt reading from the orthodox party.

Many today believe that it was not written by Paul but by an associate or disciple after his death, representing what they believed was his message, so Ehrman, Gaventa, Smiles, Schnelle, Boring, and Kelly.