No. 12 in America · Week of November 9, 2026
New Testament scholar, UNC Chapel Hill
Bart Ehrman is a New Testament scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of six New York Times bestsellers.
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Score breakdown
Nine parts, measured fresh each week. This is where Bart Ehrman's points came from, and the evidence behind each one.
Debate record
A scholar who takes his case to the debate stage, against apologists from William Lane Craig to Dinesh D'Souza, on the resurrection and the problem of suffering.
Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. His research covers the text of the New Testament, the historical Jesus and the origins of early Christianity.
He has written or edited more than 30 books and runs a membership blog whose proceeds support charities fighting hunger and homelessness.
On the record
2010
November 11, 2010
Formal debate
Against Dinesh D'Souza · Gordon College
The second of three debates with D'Souza. Ehrman argued that the scale of human suffering is hard to square with a good and powerful God.
2009
January 21, 2009
Formal debate
Against James White · Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Ehrman defended the thesis of Misquoting Jesus against the Reformed apologist; Ehrman later wrote that it was not a good experience.
2009
April 2009
Formal debate
Against Michael Licona · Southern Evangelical Seminary
Ehrman argued that historians cannot prove a miracle, against Licona's historical case for the resurrection.
2006
March 28, 2006
Formal debate
Against William Lane Craig · College of the Holy Cross
Ehrman argued that historians cannot establish a miracle as the most probable explanation of past events, against Craig's case for the empty tomb and the appearances.
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