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 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 Mariae), from 1950 to 1969 and was an ordained priest in 1957. He joined DePaul University in Chicago in 1969 and remained there until 1995. He is now a Professor Emeritus in its Department of Religious Studies.
Books
The Jesus Controversy
Perspectives in Conflict
1999
Render Unto Caesar
The Struggle Over Christ and Culture in the New Testament
2022
The Dark Interval
1975
The Birth of Christianity
1998
How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian
Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation
2015
The Greatest Prayer
Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord's Prayer
2010
A Long Way from Tipperary
2000
The Essential Jesus
Original Sayings and Earliest Images
1994
Who Killed Jesus?
Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus
1995
Excavating Jesus
Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts
2001
In Parables
The Challenge of the Historical Jesus
1973
The Resurrection of Jesus
John Dominic Crossan & N.T. Wright in Dialogue
2005
Jesus
A Revolutionary Biography
1994
God and Empire
Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now
2007
In Search of Paul
2004
The Power of Parable
How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus
2012
The Historical Jesus
The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
1991
Resurrecting Easter
How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision
2018
Paul the Pharisee
A Vision Beyond the Violence of Civilization
2024
Who Is Jesus? Answers to Your Questions About the Historical Jesus
1996
