John Dominic Crossan (b.1934), scholar

John Dominic Crossan

John Dominic Crossan (b.1934) is an Irish American scholar. Born in Nenagh Co., Tipperary, Ireland in 1934. Doctorate of Divinity from Maynooth College, Ireland, 1959. Post-doctoral research at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome (1959-1961) and at the École Biblique, Jerusalem (1965-1967). Was an ordained Catholic priest, order of the Servites (1957-1969). Taught at DePaul University, Chicago, since 1969, Professor Emeritus since 1995. A specialist in the field of Historical Jesus studies, co-founder and co-chair of the Jesus Seminar (1985-1996). President, Society of Biblical Literature, 2011-2012

Works

Books

• Four Other Gospels: Shadows on the Contours of Canon (1985 Crossan), book

• The Cross That Spoke: The Origins of the Passion Narrative (1988 Crossan), book

• The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (1991 Crossan), book

• Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994 Crossan), book

• Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus (1995 Crossan), book

• The Birth of Christianity (1998 Crossan), book

• Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts (2001 Crossan, Reed), book
  • Jesús desenterrado (2003 Crossan, Reed / Lozoya), book (Spanish ed.)
  • Jesus ausgraben (2003 Crossan, Reed / Krülls-Hepermann), book (German ed.)
  • 예수의 역사 : 고고학과 주석학의 통합 = Excavating Jesus (2010 Crossan, Reed / Kim), book (Korean ed.)

• In Search of Paul (2004 Crossan, Reed), book
  • En busca de Pablo (In Search of Paul / 2006 Crossan, Reed), book (Spanish ed.)

• The Last Week: The Day-by-Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem (2006 Borg, Crossan), book

• God and Empire: Jesus against Rome, then and now (2007 Crossan), book

• The First Paul (2009 Borg/Crossan), book

• The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus (2012 Crossan), book

Edited volumes

• The Historical Jesus in Context (2006 Levine/Allison/Crossan), edited volume

Biography

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References

• Mark A. Powell, in Jesus in History, Thought, and Culture (2003 Houlten), edited volume
• John Dominic Crossan personal webpage