Bart Ehrman

My background? How long do you have? At least three hours. Yeah, okay. Well, right. So I'm a scholar of the New Testament, early Christianity. I have a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary in New Testament studies. My background, I got into biblical studies because I was a Christian as a teenager, a born-again evangelical Christian.

My background? How long do you have? At least three hours. Yeah, okay. Well, right. So I'm a scholar of the New Testament, early Christianity. I have a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary in New Testament studies. My background, I got into biblical studies because I was a Christian as a teenager, a born-again evangelical Christian.

My background? How long do you have? At least three hours. Yeah, okay. Well, right. So I'm a scholar of the New Testament, early Christianity. I have a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary in New Testament studies. My background, I got into biblical studies because I was a Christian as a teenager, a born-again evangelical Christian.

And I went off to a fundamentalist Bible college after high school and then went off to an evangelical liberal arts college. And I got really interested in studying Greek. Greek is an ancient language and decided to do graduate work analyzing Greek manuscripts of the New Testament.

And I went off to a fundamentalist Bible college after high school and then went off to an evangelical liberal arts college. And I got really interested in studying Greek. Greek is an ancient language and decided to do graduate work analyzing Greek manuscripts of the New Testament.

And I went off to a fundamentalist Bible college after high school and then went off to an evangelical liberal arts college. And I got really interested in studying Greek. Greek is an ancient language and decided to do graduate work analyzing Greek manuscripts of the New Testament.

And so I went to Princeton Theological Seminary, where the world's expert in the analysis of Greek manuscripts worked. And I spent years there working on that and did a master's degree and a PhD. Ended up teaching at Rutgers University for a few years, and I've been at North Carolina Chapel Hill now for, well, since 1988. Oh, wow.

And so I went to Princeton Theological Seminary, where the world's expert in the analysis of Greek manuscripts worked. And I spent years there working on that and did a master's degree and a PhD. Ended up teaching at Rutgers University for a few years, and I've been at North Carolina Chapel Hill now for, well, since 1988. Oh, wow.

And so I went to Princeton Theological Seminary, where the world's expert in the analysis of Greek manuscripts worked. And I spent years there working on that and did a master's degree and a PhD. Ended up teaching at Rutgers University for a few years, and I've been at North Carolina Chapel Hill now for, well, since 1988. Oh, wow.

Teaching both undergraduate students and PhD students in early Christianity, New Testament, those kinds of things. Wow.

Teaching both undergraduate students and PhD students in early Christianity, New Testament, those kinds of things. Wow.

Teaching both undergraduate students and PhD students in early Christianity, New Testament, those kinds of things. Wow.

Well, I was raised in the church. I was raised in the Episcopal Church. But then when I was a teenager, late teenager, mid-teenager, I had a born-again experience and became a very conservative evangelical. And a lot of my faith at that point was built on the idea that the Bible has no mistakes in it, completely inerrant.

Well, I was raised in the church. I was raised in the Episcopal Church. But then when I was a teenager, late teenager, mid-teenager, I had a born-again experience and became a very conservative evangelical. And a lot of my faith at that point was built on the idea that the Bible has no mistakes in it, completely inerrant.

Well, I was raised in the church. I was raised in the Episcopal Church. But then when I was a teenager, late teenager, mid-teenager, I had a born-again experience and became a very conservative evangelical. And a lot of my faith at that point was built on the idea that the Bible has no mistakes in it, completely inerrant.

That was the view taught at the Moody Bible Institute I went to and also at Wheaton College where I finished my undergraduate degree. That view started shifting when I went into graduate school. As I started, I learned Hebrew, and so I was reading the New Testament in Greek and the Old Testament in Hebrew.

That was the view taught at the Moody Bible Institute I went to and also at Wheaton College where I finished my undergraduate degree. That view started shifting when I went into graduate school. As I started, I learned Hebrew, and so I was reading the New Testament in Greek and the Old Testament in Hebrew.

That was the view taught at the Moody Bible Institute I went to and also at Wheaton College where I finished my undergraduate degree. That view started shifting when I went into graduate school. As I started, I learned Hebrew, and so I was reading the New Testament in Greek and the Old Testament in Hebrew.

And I learned French and German, so I could read what modern scholars are saying in these countries and learned other ancient languages. And the more I studied, the more I realized, in fact, the Bible does have mistakes in it. There are contradictions, there are discrepancies, there are geographical errors, there are problems with the Bible.

And I learned French and German, so I could read what modern scholars are saying in these countries and learned other ancient languages. And the more I studied, the more I realized, in fact, the Bible does have mistakes in it. There are contradictions, there are discrepancies, there are geographical errors, there are problems with the Bible.