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ⓘ About Bart D. Ehrman
He is a graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois) got both his PhD and Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, where his doctoral dissertation was awarded magna cum laude. Since that time, he has published rather extensively in the fields of Early Christianity and New Testament, having edited or written over twenty books, dozens of book reviews, and many scholarly articles. His work has been featured in the New Yorker, Time, the Washington Post, as well as other print media. Bart has appeared on NBC’s Dateline, CNN, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The History Channel, as well as other top media outlets.
All Book Series by Bart D. Ehrman
Didymus the Blind & the Text of the Gospels
Series opener · book 1 of 43 · published 1986
The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament
Book 2 of 43 · published 1993
The Text of the New Testament In Contemporary Research
Book 3 of 43 · published 1995
The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings
Book 4 of 43 · published 1996
The New Testament And Other Early Christian Writings
Book 5 of 43 · published 1997
After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity
Book 6 of 43 · published 1998
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
Book 9 of 43 · published 2002
Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It Into the New Testament
Book 10 of 43 · published 2003
Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 CE: A Reader
Book 11 of 43 · published 2003
Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene & Constantine
Book 13 of 43 · published 2004
The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration
Book 15 of 43 · published 2005 Co-authored · Bruce M. Metzger
Whose Word Is It? The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why
Book 16 of 43 · published 2005
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Book 17 of 43 · published 2005
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed
Book 18 of 43 · published 2006
Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament
Book 19 of 43 · published 2006
Peter, Paul & Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History & Legend
Book 20 of 43 · published 2006
God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer
Book 21 of 43 · published 2008
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
Book 22 of 43 · published 2009
Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
Book 26 of 43 · published 2012
Forgery and Counter-forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics
Book 27 of 43 · published 2012
The Other Gospels: Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament
Book 28 of 43 · published 2013
The History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon
Book 29 of 43 · published 2013
The Greatest Controversies of Early Christian History
Book 30 of 43 · published 2013
The Bible: A Historical and Literary Introduction
Book 31 of 43 · published 2013
How Jesus Became God : the Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
Book 32 of 43 · published 2014
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
Book 33 of 43 · published 2016
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
Book 34 of 43 · published 2017
Summary and Analysis of the Books of the Bible: A Quick Guide
Book 35 of 43 · published 2019 Co-authored · Jacob Hayden
After the New Testament: The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers
Book 38 of 43 · published 2020
When Did Jesus Become God?: A Christological Debate
Book 41 of 43 · published 2022 Co-authored · Michael F. Bird,Robert B. Stewart
Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End
Book 42 of 43 · published 2023
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Bart D. Ehrman?
He is a graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois) got both his PhD and Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, where his doctoral dissertation was awarded magna cum laude. Since that time, he has published rather extensively in the fields of Early Christianity and New Testament, having edited or written over twenty books, dozens of book reviews, and many scholarly articles. His work has been featured in the New Yorker, Time, the Washington Post, as well as other print media.
Which Bart D. Ehrman series should I start with?
Bart D. Ehrman's books stand alone rather than forming a numbered series, so there is no reading order to follow. The natural first pick is Didymus the Blind & the Text of the Gospels (1986).
How many books has Bart D. Ehrman written?
Bart D. Ehrman has 44 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1986 and 2026. They are filed under 2 categories rather than in numbered series — chiefly Non-Fiction and Anthologies.
In what order should Bart D. Ehrman's series be read?
No reading order is needed: none of the 44 books catalogued here do not form a numbered series, so any title can be picked up first. Within each category they are listed by publication year.
How are Bart D. Ehrman's books organised into series?
This guide splits Bart D. Ehrman's 44 books into categories rather than numbered series: Non-Fiction (43 books); Anthologies (1 book).