Bart Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill and widely recognized as the leading expert on New Testament textual criticism and transmission. His identification of scholarly consensus on historical Jesus questions and his rigorous textual analysis carry significant academic weight, though his conclusions have sometimes moved from descriptive to agnostic in tone.
How Jesus Became God; Misquoting Jesus; Forged; The Triumph of Christianity; Jesus Interrupted