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Judge not, lest ye be judged, ml! (Matt 7:1)

Courses by Bart D. Ehrman, for inquiring minds: http://www.teach12.com/store/professor.asp?ID=150&d=Bart+Ehrman

> After the New Testament: The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers
> From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity
> Historical Jesus
> History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon
> Lost Christianities: Christian Scriptures and the Battles over Authentication
> New Testament
> Old Testament & New Testament
> St. Augustine's Confessions & After the New Testament

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The Judas Gospel's photographer... another unbeliever, ml?

http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/gospel/sightsnsounds.html

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In the United States, ml, we maintain separation of church and state in accordance with our precious constitution. In a free, democratic, and tolerant American society, any man or woman including Dr. Ehrman may choose to be or not to be a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, or whatever else he decides.

Dr. Ehrman's decision to no longer have his mind and freewill controlled by Christian Fundamentalist teachers and their intolerant interpretation of the bible does not make him anything less in the eyes of U.S. law.

And it appears that he learned more about what it means to be Christian during his biblical and theological studies at Wheaton College and his Master of Divinity and Ph.D. at Princeton Theological Seminary. http://www.explorefaith.org/bio/ehrman.html

Constitution of the United States, Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/usconst.html

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Bart D. Ehrman is a New Testament Scholar and an expert on Early Christianity. He received his Ph.D & M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary where he studied under Bruce Metzger. He currently serves as the chairperson of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was the President of the Southeast Region of the Society of Biblical Literature, and worked closely as an editor on a number of the Society's publications. Currently, he co-edits the series New Testament Tools and Studies.

Much of Ehrman's writing has concentrated on various aspects of Walter Bauer's thesis that Christianity was always diversified or at odds with itself. Ehrman is often considered a pioneer in connecting the history of the early church to textual variants within biblical manuscripts and in coining such terms as "Proto-Orthodox." In his writings, Ehrman has turned the tables of textual criticism. From the time of the Church Fathers, it was the heretics (Marcion, for example) that were charged with tampering with the biblical manuscripts. Ehrman theorizes that it was actually the Orthodox that "corrupted" the manuscripts.

Although Ehrman has a strong background in Evangelical Christianity, having attending both Moody Bible Institute and Wheaton College (B.A., 1978), his personal beliefs have shifted over time. Ehrman now considers himself an agnostic.

Ehrman has two children, a daughter, Kelly, and a son, Derek. He is married to Sarah Beckwith (Ph.D., King's College London), Marcello Lotti Professor of English at Duke University.

Ehrman's scholarly output is extensive. He has authored or contributed to nineteen books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_D._Ehrman