In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about King Herod slaughtering ch…

- Bart D. Ehrman

You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.

- Bart D. Ehrman

Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Ch…

- Bart D. Ehrman

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

- Bart D. Ehrman

I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it's silly to talk about him not existing. I don't know anyone who is a respons…

- Bart D. Ehrman

My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough …

- Bart D. Ehrman

Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option -…

- Bart D. Ehrman

Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye of the historian, b…

- Bart D. Ehrman

[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Ev…

- Bart D. Ehrman