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Bart D. Ehrman est un ex-chrétien spécialiste américain du Nouveau Testament, actuellement Professeur Émérite James A. Gray d'Études Religieuses à l'Université de Caroline du Nord à Chapel Hill. Ehrman est un éminent spécialiste du Nouveau Testament, après avoir écrit et publié plus de vingt-cinq livres, dont trois manuels de collège. Il a également obtenu une reconnaissance au niveau populaire, écrivant quatre best-sellers du New York Times. Le travail de Ehrman met l'accent sur la critique textuelle du Nouveau Testament, le Jésus historique et l'évolution du christianisme primitif. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. octobre 1955   •   Autres noms バート・D・アーマン, 巴特·葉爾曼
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“We don't even have copies of the copies of the originals, or copies of the copies of the copies of the originals. What we have are copies made later—much later.”

Bart D. Ehrman livre Misquoting Jesus

Introduction
Misquoting Jesus (2005)
Contexte: It is one thing to say that the originals were inspired, but the reality is that we don't have the originals—so saying they were inspired doesn't help me much, unless I can reconstruct the originals. Moreover, the vast majority of Christians for the entire history of the church have not had access to the originals, making their inspiration something of a moot point. Not only do we not have the originals, we don't have the first copies of the originals. We don't even have copies of the copies of the originals, or copies of the copies of the copies of the originals. What we have are copies made later—much later. In most instances, they are copies made many centuries later. And these copies all differ from one another, in many thousands of places. As we will see later in this book, these copies differ from one another in so many places that we don't even know how many differences there are. Possibly it is easiest to put it in comparative terms: there are more differences among our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament.

“There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.”

Source: God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer

“Christianity may well have succeeded even if Constantine had not converted.”

Introduction
The Triumph of Christianity (2018)

“Judas's act of "betrayal" is in fact his faithful obedience to Jesus' will.”

Source: The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot (2006), Ch. 6: 'The Gospel of Judas: An Overview'

“Very few people who devote their lives to studying the historical Jesus actually want to find a Jesus who is completely removed from our own time. What people want … is relevance.”

Bart D. Ehrman livre Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium

Source: Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium (1999), Ch. 8: 'Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet', p. 127