October 1, 2010
Friday
9:30am - 2:30pm
Prosser Auditorium, HUB
Moravian College
Locust & Monocacy Streets
Program Fee: Free
 Streaming video available
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Scholars have long known about forgeries from the early Christians church – books that claim to be written by people who did not, in fact, write them. And so we have Gospels that claim to be written by Peter, Philip, Thomas, and Mary; Epistles by Barnabas and Paul (outside the New Testament) and the Roman philosopher Seneca; Apocalypses allegedly written by Peter, and Paul, and Isaiah.
Is it possible that any of the books that falsely claim to be written by the apostles made it into the New Testament? Is it possible that the Gospels were not written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John? That Paul did not write some of the letters that go under his name? That Peter did not write either of the ones that go under his? This lecture will consider the possibility of whether there might be forgeries within the pages of the New Testament.
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Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to his scholarly works, he is the author of three New York Times Bestsellers: Jesus Interrupted, God’s Problem, and Misquoting Jesus (an overview of the changes found in the surviving copies of the New Testament and of the scribes who produced them). Among other distinctions, Professor Ehrman has served as President of the Southeast Region of the Society of Biblical literature, chair of the New Testament textual criticism section of the Society, book review editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature, and editor of the monograph series The New Testament in the Greek Fathers (Scholars Press). He currently serves as co-editor of the series New Testament Tools, Studies, and Documents (E. J. Brill), co-editor-in-chief for the journal Vigiliae Christianae, and on several other editorial boards for journals and monographs in the field.
