Thursday, January 20, 2011

Bart Ehrman lecturing at UT

BART EHRMAN is lecturing at the University of Tennessee:
New Testament scholar to speak at UT

Renowned New Testament scholar Bart D. Ehrman of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill will kick off the newly created David L. Dungan Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. Thursday in the UC auditorium at UT.

Ehrman's lecture is titled "Does The New Testament Contain Forgeries? The Surprising Claims of Modern Scholars" and is presented by UT's Department of Religious Studies.

Ehrman's books on the New Testament and early Christianity include "Misquoting Jesus," "God's Problem," "Jesus, Interrupted," and "The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot." He is an expert on the New Testament manuscript tradition, the historical Jesus, the early Christian apocrypha and the apostolic fathers.

Following the presentation, Ehrman will participate in a Q-and-A session, and a reception will be held in the University Center Crest Room.