Bøger af Bart D. Ehrman

The bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping questions of human existence - where did the ideas of heaven and hell come from, and why do they endure?

I bogen viser Ehrman hvordan kristendommen, blev den officielle religion i Rom og kom til at stå for konverteringen af omkring 30 millioner mennesker på bare fire århundreder.Det var ikke givet, at kristendommen skulle blive den dominerende religion i Vesten. Den kunne let være forblevet en sekt i jødedommen med ikke mere end samme historiske betydning som saddukæerne eller essæerne. I Kristendommens triumf viser Ehrman hvordan en religion, hvis første troende var cirka 20 uuddannede daglejere fra en fjern del af imperiet, blev den officielle religion i Rom og kom til at stå for konverteringen af omkring 30 millioner menne sker på bare fire århundreder. Kristendommens triumf kombinerer stor faglig viden og omhyggelig forskning i en øjenåbnende, let læsbar fortælling, der udfordrer den måde, vi tænker på i forhold til den vigtigste kulturelle transformation, vores verden nogensinde har set – en transformation, der revolutionerede kunst, musik, litteratur, filosofi, etik, økonomi og jura.Bogen er oversat til dansk af Lisbet Kjær Müller og Mogens Müller.

The debate between Ehrman and Evans along with Stewart's introductory framework make this book an excellent primer to the study of the historical Jesus, and readers will come away with a deeper appreciation for the ongoing quest for the historical Jesus.

One Bible, Many AnswersIn God's Problem, the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus challenges the contradictory biblical explanations for why an all-powerful God allows us to suffer.

The ';marvelous' (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot), New York Times bestselling story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four centuries? In The Triumph of Christianity, early Christian historian Bart D. Ehrman weaves the rigorously-researched answer to this question ';into a vivid, nuanced, and enormously readable narrative' (Elaine Pagels, National Book Award-winning author of The Gnostic Gospels), showing how a handful of charismatic characters used a brilliant social strategy and an irresistible message to win over hearts and minds one at a time. This ';humane, thoughtful and intelligent' book (The New York Times Book Review) upends the way we think about the single most important cultural transformation our world has ever seenone that revolutionized art, music, literature, philosophy, ethics, economics, and law.

How did Christianity become the dominant faith in the West in the historical blink of an eye? Bart Ehrman shows that there was no miraculous rate of conversion required

Reveals the many challenging and even disturbing, early variations of our cherished biblical stories. This book shows us where and why changes were made in our earliest surviving manuscripts, changes that have a dramatic impact on widely-held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself.

The Truth Behind the Jesus MythLarge numbers of atheists, humanists, and conspiracy theorists are raising one of the most pressing questions in the history of religion: "Did Jesus exist at all?" New York Times bestselling author Bart Ehrman confronts this question head-on and provides a compelling portrait of the Jesus you may not have hoped to meet?but he did exist whether we like it or not.

The Untold Story of Forgery in the BibleIn Forged, leading Bible authority Bart D. Ehrman exposes one of the most unsettling ironies of the early Christian tradition: the use of deception to establish the truth. With the scholarly expertise and provocative claims for which he's known, Ehrman reveals which texts were forged in the name of Jesus's disciples and considers how the deceptions of an unnamed few have prevailed for centuries. The untold story of widespread forgery in the ancient world sheds new light on how documents of scandalous origin became part of the Bible we have today.

A textbook on the transcribing and transmission of the New Testament. It offers a comprehensive survey of ancient manuscripts, and considers the science and art of textual criticism. It covers a variety of textual problems and offers accounts of several schools of textual mythology.