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John Dominic Crossan

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January 01, 1934 in Tipperary, Ireland

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http://www.johndominiccrossan.com/

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John Dominic Crossan is generally regarded as the leading historical Jesus scholar in the world. He is the author of several bestselling books, including The Historical Jesus, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, The Birth of Christianity, and Who Killed Jesus? He lives in Clermont, Florida.
John Dominic Crossan was born in Nenagh County in Tipperary, Ireland, in 1934. He was educated in Ireland and the United States, received a Doctorate of Divinity from Maynooth College in Ireland in 1959, and did post-doctoral research at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome from 1959 to 1961 and at the École Biblique in Jerusalem from 1965 to 1967. He was a member of a thirteenth-century Roman Catholic religious order, the Servites (Ordo Servorum Mari...more

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Books by John Dominic Crossan

Average rating: 3.91 · 2,167 ratings · 297 reviews · 40 distinct works

	Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography 3.80 avg rating — 354 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant 3.92 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions	My rating:
	God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now 4.07 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus 3.70 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Birth of Christianity 3.74 avg rating — 96 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	In Search of Paul by John Dominic Crossan, Jonathan L. Reed 3.69 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts by John Dominic Crossan, Jonathan L. Reed 3.76 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images by John Dominic Crossan, Dominic Crossan 3.78 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The greatest prayer: revolutionary manifesto and hymn of hope 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Resurrection of Jesus: John Dominic Crossan & N.T. Wright in Dialogue by John Dominic Crossan, N.T. Wright, Ted Peters (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“. . . I still hold two truths with equal and fundamental certainty. One: the British did terrible things to the Irish. Two: the Irish, had they the power, would have done equally terrible things to the British. And so also for any other paired adversaries I can imagine. The difficulty is to hold on to both truths with equal intensity, not let either one negate the other, and know when to emphasize one without forgetting the other. Our humanity is probably lost and gained in the necessary tension between them both. I hope, by the way, that I do not sound anti-British. It is impossible not to admire a people who gave up India and held on to Northern Ireland. That shows a truly Celtic sense of humor.”
― John Dominic Crossan

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