John Dominic Crossan, PH.D.

John Dominic Crossan is an Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. He is the author of several bestselling books, including God and Empire, The Historical Jesus, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, The Birth of Christianity, and Who Killed Jesus? He lives in Minneola, Florida.

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Bible/Jesus Experts

Christian Living

The Greatest Prayer

Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord's Prayer

Talking Points

This is quintessential Crossan for the general market, providing just the right amount of history, scholarship, and detail to facilitate the message of Christianity’s greatest prayer. Addressing issues of God’s will for us and our response, our responsibilities to each other and to the earth, the theology of our daily bread, the moral responsibilities that come with money, our nation states and God’s kingdom, Crossan reveals the enduring meaning and universal significance of the only prayer Jesus ever taught.

John Dominic Crossan has appeared on many ABC specials, as well as PBS and NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC documentaries. He has appeared several times on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” among many other media.

Description

Every Sunday, the Lord’s Prayer echoes in every Christian Church around the world. It is an indisputable principle of Christian faith. It is the way Jesus taught his followers to pray, and distills the most essential beliefs required of every one of the world’s 2.5 billion Christians. In The Greatest Prayer, our foremost Jesus scholar explores this foundational prayer line-by-line for the richest and fullest understanding yet of a prayer every Christian knows by heart.

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Bible/Jesus Experts

The First Paul

Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon

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John Dominic Crossan is the author of several bestselling books, including God and Empire, The Historical Jesus, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, The Birth of Christianity and Who Killed Jesus? He lives in Minneola, Florida.

Marcus J. Borg is Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University and author of the bestselling Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, The Heart of Christianity, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time, The God We Never Knew, and Jesus.

Description

In this revolutionary follow-up to The Last Week and The First Christmas, Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan once again use the best of biblical and historical scholarship to expose the church’s conspiracy to silence Jesus’s most faithful disciple, the former Pharisee Saul, known to the world as the apostle Paul.

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Bible/Jesus Experts

The First Christmas

What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth

Talking Points

Borg is Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University and author of the best-selling books Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, The Heart of Christianity, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time,The God We Never Knew, and Jesus.
Crossan is the author of several best-selling books including God & Empire, The Historical Jesus, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography,The Birth of Christianity, Who Killed Jesus?, and The Last Week, coauthored with Marcus Borg. He lives in Minneola, Florida.

Description

An account of the two famous nativity narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, The First Christmas focuses on discovering the actual literary story that the Gospels tell. Using the Gospel of Mark as their guide, The Last Week explores the events of the last seven days of Jesus’s life leading up to his crucifixion and death.

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Bible/Jesus Experts

God & Empire

Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now

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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, FL.

Description

Using the tools of expert biblical scholarship, Crossan deftly presents the tensions in the Bible between political power and God’s justice. Just as Rome in the first century, American policies and moral values can be reexamined in light of Jesus’s prophetic message of peace through social justice, NOT peace through military victory. In God and Empire, Crossan offers the biblical insight and historical lessons to make the best decisions for just and lasting peace in our own time.

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Bible/Jesus Experts

Excavating Jesus

Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts

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JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN teams up with JONATHAN REED— a Galilean field archaeologist—to show us that the apostle Paul functioned as a second Jesus to the outside world. They can speak to the historical figure of Paul and his influential legacy, and how the whole Jesus vs. Paul debate is misguided.

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, FL.

JONATHAN L. REED teaches New Testament and Christian Origins at La Verne College, La Verne, CA. He is a leading authority on 1st-century Palestine Archaology, has been involved in several major digs, and is now the lead archaeologist at Sepphoris. He recenly published a major scholarly book on his research, Archaeology and the Galilean Jesus. He lives in Upland, CA.

Description

Drawing on new historical analyses and archaeological discoveries, this book answers many of the vital questions about Paul and the first Christians.

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