PJ Williams at the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog notes an email he received offering a complementary copy of Ehrman's upcoming book The Lost Gospel of Judas: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed from Oxford University Press (OUP).

I received the same email too. And I've only ever interacted with Ehrman's stuff on this blog, so they must've searched around a bit to find folks.

I blogged about Ehrman primarily in a post called Bart Ehrman has "Jumped the Shark", lamenting his slide toward sensationalism at that time evidenced in his essay in the Gospel of Judas book from National Geographic.

I can't pass up a free book on a topic I'm interested in (development of early Christianity, along with Greek and Coptic) so I've responded to the offer with a request for the book. I'll let y'all know what I think if/when I receive the book.

Also note that PJ Williams mentions a forthcoming book on Gospel of Judas by ETC's own Simon Gathercole noting it will have " plenty of philological learning as well as sound judgement on the subject". Now that's a book I hope Oxford promos and wants to offer me a complementary copy of!

Side note: The post on Ehrman jumping the shark has a humorous comment from one purporting to be Dr. Ehrman. If that really was Dr. E, I note that you'll be in Seattle on Oct. 9. If you're able to slide up to Bellingham (just under two hours freeway drive north on I-5) I'll fire up the BBQ. Have your people call my people.