Born in 1955, he describes having a born again evangelical conversion as a teenager.
He went to Moody Bible College where he discovered a gift in reading the original languages of the Bible. This led him to further study at Wheaton College and postgraduate work at Princeton Theological Seminary. His doctoral work was under the supervision of Bruce Metzger, a name familiar to anyone who uses a Greek New Testament. Who am I describing? It might sound like the background of a Don Carson or a Craig Blomberg. It sounds like the credentials of a significant evangelical scholar. Sadly, this is the life story of a man who has become one of the most influential critics of biblical Christianity.
Views widely promoted
Bart Ehrman lost his faith during the course of his studies. His specialism today remains the text of the New Testament. But rather than confirming its accuracy, Ehrman has sold books by the thousands that pour scorn on its reliability. Anyone studying the reliability of the Bible today must reckon with Ehrman and his views are becoming widely promoted in popular culture. Four of his books on New Testament studies have been in the New York Times bestseller lists. One of his most popular, Misquoting Jesus, has the subtitle ‘The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why’.
