Bart D. 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 New York Times bestsellers Misquoting Jesus, How Jesus Became God, and The Triumph of Christianity. A Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he has created eight popular audio and video courses for The Great Courses. He has been featured in Time, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post, and has appeared on NBC, CNN, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, BBC, and NPR. His most recent book is Heaven and Hell.
"Ehrman is a great scholar, and this -- as one would expect -- is a
book full of learning and nuance."
-- The Spectator (UK)
"Accessible and intriguing."
-- Kirkus Reviews
"Bart Ehrman is the leading expert on early Christian texts and
here he takes the story on into the fourth century in a vivid and
readable narrative that explores why Christianity "triumphed" as a
world religion. The work is particularly valuable for its critical
survey of the work of other scholars in the field."
-- Charles Freeman, author of A New History of Early
Christianity
"Drawing on a wealth of ancient sources and contemporary historical
research, Bart Ehrman weaves complex questions into a vivid,
nuanced, and enormously readable narrative."
-- Elaine Pagels, National Book Award-winning author of The Gnostic
Gospels
"How did a small, provincial Jewish sect called Christianity
convert the mighty pagan Roman Empire? Bart Ehrman answers this
baffling question with the same wit, passion, and rigorous
scholarship that have made him one of the most popular religion
writers in the world today. The Triumph of Christianity is a
marvelous book."
-- Reza Aslan, New York Times bestselling author of Zealot
"Like a good college lecture class, [Ehrman's] book offers both a
wealth of historical information and, to make sense of it all, a
few plausible theories -- including his own. He doesn't tell us
what to think. He gives us a lot to think about."
-- Newsday
"One of Christian history's greatest puzzles after the age of the
apostles is how a tiny band of mostly-illiterate outsiders
converted the proud and massive Roman Empire in just three
centuries -- a historical blink of an eye. In The Triumph of
Christianity, Ehrman brings impressive research, intellectual
rigor, and an instinct for storytelling to this extraordinary
dynamic."
-- David Van Biema, former religion writer at Time and author of
the forthcoming Speaking to God
"The great appeal of Ehrman's approach to Christian history has
always been his steadfast humanizing impulse... Ehrman always
thinks hard about history's winners and losers without valorizing
the losers or demonizing the winners... Reading about how an entire
culture's precepts and traditions can be overthrown without anyone
being able to stop it may not be heartening at this particular
historical moment. All the more reason to spend time in the company
of such a humane, thoughtful and intelligent historian."
-- The New York Times Book Review
"The value of Ehrman's book, as is so often the case with his
writings, is in his ability to synthesize complex material and
distill it into highly readable prose."
-- Booklist
"Well worth reading for those wishing to dispel myths around the
early Christian churches."
-- Publishers Weekly
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