(2) John Dominic Crossan - The Parable of God

John Dominic Crossan is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, DePaul University, Chicago. He has written twenty books on the historical Jesus in the last thirty years, four of which have become national religious bestsellers: The Historical Jesus (1991), Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994), Who Killed Jesus (1995), and The Birth of Christianity (1998). He is a former co-chair of the Jesus Seminar, and a former chair of the Historical Jesus Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, an international scholarly association for biblical study based in the United States.

# The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus, 1998
# Who Is Jesus? Answers to Your Questions about the Historical Jesus, 1996
# Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus, 1995
# Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, 1994
# The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images, 1994
# The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant, 1991
# The Cross that Spoke: The Origins of the Passion Narrative, 1988
# Sayings Parallels: A Workbook for the Jesus Tradition, 1986
# Four Other Gospels: Shadows on the Contours of Canon, 1985, reprinted, 1992
# In Fragments: The Aphorisms of Jesus, San Francisco, 1983
# A Fragile Craft: The Work of Amos Niven Wilder, 1981.
# Cliffs of Fall: Paradox and Polyvalence in the Parables of Jesus, 1980
# Finding Is the First Act: Trove Folktales and Jesus' Treasure Parable, 1979
# Raid on the Articulate: Comic Eschatology in Jesus and Borges, 1976
# The Dark Interval: Towards a Theology of Story, 1975, reprinted 1988.
# In Parables: The Challenge of the Historical Jesus, 1973, reprinted 1992.

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