BART D. EHRMAN conduce Departamentul de studiu al religiilor din cadrul North Carolina University, Chapel Hill. Si-a facut studiile de masterat si doctorat la Princeton Theological Seminary, unde a absolvit, in 1985, magna cum laude. Este unul dintre cei mai importanti experti in istoria crestinismului timpuriu, cunoscut publicului larg prin carti precum Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (2009); God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Questions – Why We Suffer (2008); The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed (2006); Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Constantine (2004); Lost Christianities (2003); Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It into the New Testament (2003); The Apostolic Fathers (2003); Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium (1999); The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings: A Reader (1998); The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament (1993). La Editura Humanitas au mai aparut Adevar si fictiune in „Codul lui Da Vinci" (2005) si Evanghelia pierduta a lui Iuda (2009).