• Middle East 100% • Western Europe/European Union (EU) 50%-74%
Languages:
• Coptic (limited working proficiency) • French (professional proficiency) • German (professional proficiency) • Greek (professional proficiency) • Hebrew (elementary proficiency) • Latin (limited working proficiency) • Syriac (limited working proficiency)
Specialization:
New Testament; Early Christianity
Relevant Experience:
International Steering Committee, North American Committee of the International Greek New Testament Project, responsible for constructing a critical apparatus for the Greek New Testament (1988- ); International Steering Committee (2000-). Lecturer for the UNC Alumni Trip to the Holy Land; April, 2000.
Distinctions:
Society of Biblical Literature Research and Publication Grants, 1991, 1992. President, Society of Biblical Literature, Southeast Region (1996-97). Bowman and Gordon Gray Professorship (Awarded for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching), 1998-2001. Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium won the History Book of the Month Club Selection and the Los Angeles Times 2000 Book of the Year awards.
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
6
Relevant Courses Taught:
Birth of Christianity; Introduction to New Testament; Introduction to Hebrew Bible; Life and Letters of Paul; Jesus and the Synoptics; Problem of Suffering in the Biblical Traditions
Recent Publications:
• 2016 Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, & Invented Their Stories of the Savior. (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2016)
• 2015 “The Life of Brian and the Apocalyptic Jesus,” in Brian and Jesus, ed. Joan Taylor
(London: Bloomsbury; expected publication: August 2015).
• 2014 How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee. (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2014)
• 2013 Bart Ehrman and Zlatko Plese, The Lost Gospels: Accounts of Jesus from Outside the New Testament(New York: Oxford University Print, 2013); The Bible: A Historical Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 462
• 2013 Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), x-628
• 2009 Did Jesus Exist? (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2012), vi-361. Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don’t Know About Them) (HarperOne, 2009)
• 2008 God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer our Most Important Question -- Why We Suffer. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2008. Pp. x+294.
• 2006 The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed. Oxford University Press, 2006.
• 2006 Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament. New Testament Tools and Studies. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2006. Pp. x+406.
• 2005 The Transformation of Jesus: How a Jewish Prophet Became God (under contract with Oxford University Press; expected date of completion March, 2005).
• 2005 Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: Followers of Jesus in History and Legend. Oxford University Press, 2005.
• 2005 Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. HarperSanFrancisco, 2005.
• 2004 A Brief Introduction to the New Testament. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• 1999 Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• 1999 "Jesus as Apocalyptic Prophet," Perspectives in Religion, 26 (1999) 153-66.
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