Bart D. Ehrman is the author of more than 20 books, including the New York Times bestsellers Misquoting Jesus, God’s Problem, and Jesus, Interrupted. The James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Ehrman is a leading authority on the historical Jesus, early Christian apocrypha, the apostolic fathers, and the manuscript tradition of the New Testament. In Forged, Ehrman offers new, original research that reveals the contentious religious, political, and personal rivalries that shaped the form and content of the New Testament—and considers the evidence and implications of forgeries in the Bible.