Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World, (Simon & Schuster, 2018) 335 pp. In his latest book Ehrman tackles the question of how an obscure Jewish sect came to conquer the Roman Empire and dominate the western world. Ehrman also tackles the idea that his conversion was not sincere at all and was a cynical political ploy. Finally, Ehrman notes correctly that death-bed baptisms were far from unusual in a period in which baptism was seen as the end point of a conversion, not its beginning. He concludes:“In this book I have tried to explain the triumph of Christianity without making it a triumphalist narrative.