Suffering is common to all; life is a wheel; prosperity is unstable. When you have wealth, stretch out your hand to the poor. Of that which God has given you, give of it to the needy. Let all of life ...

Jesus taught a different kind of altruism, the altruism that is not based only on those socially and biologically related to ...

Bart Ehrman reads at McIntyre’s Fine Books Saturday, April 30, at 11 a.m. The title of UNC religious studies professor Bart D. Ehrman’s latest book to upend conventional wisdom about the Bible is a ...

“I was dreamin’ when I wrote this,” Prince once observed. “Forgive me if it goes astray.” That’s quite the preemptive flex. Do you approve of what follows in “1999”? Lions in pockets? Everybody having ...

Bart D. Ehrman, Craig A. Evans, and Robert B. Stewart. Westminster John Knox, $25 trade paper (120p) ISBN 978-0-664-26585-4 Stewart (The Reliability of the New Testament), professor at New Orleans ...

Through his words and actions, Jesus of Nazareth excited expectations that he was (or would be) the Messiah. That Jesus inspired this hope likely led the Roman authorities to crucify him. Jesus didn’t ...

Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity, and the author or editor of more than thirty books, including the just published Heaven and Hell. He is a ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Bart D. Ehrman is a Professor for Religious Studies in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a ...