John Dominic Crossan (b.1934), scholar

John Dominic Crossan (b.1934) is an Irish American scholar.

Biography

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 on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• Four Other Gospels: Shadows on the Contours of Canon (1985 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? (1995 Crossan), book

• The Birth of Christianity (1998 Crossan), book

• Excavating Jesus (2001 Crossan/Reed), book
  • Jesús desenterrado (2003 Crossan, Reed / Lozoya), book (Spanish ed.)
  • Jesus ausgraben (2003 Crossan, Reed / Krülls-Hepermann), book (German ed.)

• In Search of Paul (2004 Crossan/Reed), book

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

• The Power of Parable (2012 Crossan), book

Edited volumes

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

References

• Mark A. Powell, in Jesus in History, Thought, and Culture (2003 Houlten), edited volume

External links

• Wikipedia
• John Dominic Crossan personal webpage