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    Render Unto Caesar

    John Dominic Crossan

    The revered Bible scholar and author of The Historical Jesus explores the Christian culture wars-the debates over church and state-from a biblical perspective, exploring the earliest tensions evident in the…

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    Birth of Christianity

    Dr. John Dominic Crossan

    John Dominic Crossan explores the lost years of earliest Christianity, the years immediately following Jesus execution.

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    The Essential Jesus

    John Dominic Crossan

    Now in paperback, this is an astonishing presentation of the authentic teachings and earliest images of the revolutionary Galilean sage that delivers a fresh vision of who Jesus really was…

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    Sayings Parallels: A Workbook for the Jesus Tradition

    John Dominic Crossan

    This book is concerned with the words rather than the deeds of Jesus. But even the words are limited to sayings, that is, units which could or did exist in…

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    In Fragments

    John Dominic Crossan

    The aphoristic form conveys universal truths in a distinctive, compressed format. Such sayings go straight to the heart of the matter and linger long afterward in the memory. Curiously enough…

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    The Cross that Spoke

    John Dominic Crossan

    In this revolutionary work, John Dominic Crossan reveals that the Passion and Resurrection Narratives in the four canonical Gospels are radical revisions of an earlier Gospel account. He argues boldly…

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    Raid on the Articulate

    John Dominic Crossan

    John Dominic Crossan’s In Parables demonstrated how Jesus’s parables demolished an idolatry of time. In this book, he shows how the parables likewise preclude an idolatry of language. In a…

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    Cliffs of Fall

    John Dominic Crossan

    When John Dominic Crossan’s book, In Parables: The Challenge of the Historical Jesus, was published in 1973, it was heralded as a major development in research both on the parables…

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    Finding Is the First ACT: Trove Folktales and Jesus’ Treasure Parable

    John Dominic Crossan

    An imaginative and illuminating study, Finding Is the First Act places historical thinking in creative tension with literary appreciation. The structures of Jesus’s parable of the hidden treasure (Matt 13:44)…

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    Semeia 19: The Book of Job and Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics

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    In Parables: The Challenge of the Historical Jesus

    John Dominic Crossan

    With In Parables, John Dominic Crossan boldly attempts to understand the parables from inside their own world. Combining critical, theological, and literary approaches, he sets the reading and study of…

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    Four Other Gospels: Shadows on the Contour of Canon

    John Dominic Crossan

    The four canonical gospels are long set in established sequence as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. This book is about four other gospels, the Gospel of Thomas, the Secret Gospel…

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    A Long Way from Tipperary: What a Former Irish Monk Discovered in His Search for the Truth

    John Dominic Crossan

    From his boyhood in Tipperary, Kildare, and Donegal to the pinnacle of biblical scholarship, John Dominic Crossan’s adventurous spirit has led him to seek out the truth no matter where…

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    Jesus and the Violence of Scripture

    John Dominic Crossan

    A world-renowned scholar explores and explains the two views of God in the Bible - the violent God of vengeance and retribution, and the non-violent God who became incarnate in…

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    Dark Interval: Towards a Theology of Story

    John Dominic Crossan

    From myth to parable, Crossan identifies five types of stories. Among these types it is parable that subverts the world and undercuts the safe shelter we build. Using literary theory…

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    The Birth of Christianity

    John Dominic Crossan

    Draws on anthropological, historical, and archeological sources to examine how the early Christian movement continued after the death of Jesus.

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    A Long Way from Tipperary: What a Former Irish Monk Discovered in His Search for the Truth

    John Dominic Crossan

    From his boyhood in Tipperary, Kildare, and Donegal to the pinnacle of biblical scholarship, John Dominic Crossan’s adventurous spirit has led him to seek out the truth no matter where…

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    A Fragile Craft: The Work of Amos Niven Wilder

    John Dominic Crossan

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    The Greatest Prayer: Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord ‘s Prayer

    John Dominic Crossan

    In The Greatest Prayer, foremost historical Jesus scholar John Dominic Crossan, bestselling author of Historical Jesus and Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, intimately explores the revolutionary meaning of the cornerstone of…

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    Render Unto Caesar: The Battle Over Christ and Culture in the New Testament

    John Dominic Crossan

    The revered Bible scholar and author of The Historical Jesus explores the Christian culture wars-the debates over church and state-from a biblical perspective, exploring the earliest tensions evident in the…

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    Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography

    John Dominic Crossan

    The controversial, bestselling account of what we can know about the life of Jesus.

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    The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus

    John Dominic Crossan

    Controversial new book by an internationally respected expert on Jesus and his time. Argues that Jesus’ parables became the inspiration and model for the way he is presented in the…

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    How To Read The Bible And Still Be A Christian: Struggling With Divine Violence From Genesis Through Revelation

    John Dominic Crossan

    Subtitle in pre-publication: Wrestling with the problem of God and violence.

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    Who Killed Jesus?

    John Dominic Crossan

    This passionately argued book, written by the bestselling author of The Historical Jesus and Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, will strike a chord with anyone concerned with the rising tide of…

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    The Historical Jesus

    John Dominic Crossan

    A seminal portrait of Jesus the man in his time– the most important scholarly book about Jesus in decades (Marcus Borg). In this groundbreaking work, Crossan presents the verifiably original…

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    God And Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now

    John Dominic Crossan

    Foremost New Testament scholar draws parallels between first century Roman Empire and 21st century United States, showing how the radical message of Jesus and Paul can still lead us toward…

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    How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation

    John Dominic Crossan

    Subtitle in pre-publication: Wrestling with the problem of God and violence.

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    The Message of Jesus: John Dominic Crossan and Ben Witherington III in Dialogue

    Robert B. Stewart

    John Dominic Crossan and Ben Witherington III, along with a group of diverse scholars, explore points of agreement and disagreement on the message of Jesus. The book shows how each…

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    The Resurrection of Jesus: John Dominic Crossan and N. T. Wright in Dialogue

    John Dominic Crossan,N T Wright

    Two of today’s most important and popular New Testament scholars–John Dominic Crossan and N.T. Wright–air their very different understandings of the many historical realities and theological meanings of Jesus’ Resurrection.

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    Jesus Controversy: Perspectives in Conflict

    John Dominic Crossan,etc.

    Three distinguished scholars debate the continuing controversy over the historical Jesus.

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    Historiography and Hermeneutics in Jesus Studies: An Examinaiton of the Work of John Dominic Crossan and Ben F. Meyer

    Donald L. Denton

    This book is of particular interest to scholars whose interest is in New Testament, historical Jesus, hermeneutics and historiography study.

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    How to Ruin Your Education and TV Viewing: Five Lessons from John Dominic Crossan

    Spencer D Gear

    What will you do as a parent if your fourteen-year-old comes home from school and says, You and the teachers have been telling me Columbus discovered the Americas. You’ve lied…

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    How to Ruin Your Education and TV Viewing: Five Lessons from John Dominic Crossan

    Spencer D Gear

    What will you do as a parent if your fourteen-year-old comes home from school and says, You and the teachers have been telling me Columbus discovered the Americas. You’ve lied…

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    The Quest of the Hermeneutical Jesus: The Impact of Hermeneutics on the Jesus Research of John Dominic Crossan and N.T. Wright

    Robert B. Stewart

    The Quest of the Hermeneutical Jesus is a study in how reading documents referring to Jesus influences conclusions as to who Jesus was as a figure in history. In this…

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    God and Empire

    John Dominic Crossan

    In contrast to the oppressive Roman military occupation of the first century, Crossan examines the meaning of the non-violent Kingdom of God prophesized by Jesus and the equality advocated by…

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    God and Empire

    John Dominic Crossan

    In contrast to the oppressive Roman military occupation of the first century, Crossan examines the meaning of the non-violent Kingdom of God prophesized by Jesus and the equality advocated by…

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    Render Unto Caesar: The Struggle Over Christ and Culture in the New Testament

    John Dominic Crossan

    The revered Bible scholar and author of The Historical Jesus explores the Christian culture wars–the debates over church and state–from a biblical perspective, exploring the earliest tensions evident in the…

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    Who Is Jesus?: Answers to Your Questions about the Historical Jesus

    John Dominic Crossan,Richard G. Watts

    This fascinating book makes the results of a lifetime of scholarship readily available to nonspecialists who want to meet the historical Jesus. Eminent biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan collaborates with…

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    The First Christmas: What The Gospels Really Teach Us About Jesus’s Birth

    John Dominic Crossan,John Dominic Crossan

    Shows how history has biased our reading of the nativity story as it appears in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. This book explores the beginning of the life of…

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    The First Paul: Reclaiming The Radical Visionary Behind The Church’S Conservative Icon

    John Dominic Crossan,John Dominic Crossan

    Using the best of biblical and historical scholarship, this title presents a fresh understanding of early Christianity.

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    The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon

    Marcus J. Borg,John Dominic Crossan

    Two bestselling authors use the best of biblical and historical scholarship to present a new understanding of early Christianity–this time turning the common perception of Paul on its head by…

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    Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts

    John Dominic Crossan,Jonathan L Reed

    The renowned biblical scholar joins an expert on Middle Eastern archaeology to peel back the layers on the search for the historical Jesus, analyzing the archaeological discoveries of the past…

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    In Search Of Paul: How Jesus’ Apostle Opposed Rome’s Empire With God’s K ingdom

    John Dominic Crossan,Jonathan L Reed

    Two of America’s top Bible experts present a fascinating you are there vision of Paul as the embodiment of Jesus and the champion of his mission. 16-page color insert. 120…

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    The Last Week: What The Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Final Days In Jerusalem

    Marcus J Borg,John Dominic Crossan

    Using the best of biblical and historical scholarship, two bestselling authors come together to explore the last seven days of Jesus’ life.

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    The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Birth

    Marcus J. Borg,John Dominic Crossan

    The follow-up to The Last Week, this is Borg and Crossan’s account of the two nativity narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Focusing on the meaning of the…

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    The Gospel Of Thomas: Discovering the Lost Words of Jesus

    John Dart,Ray Riegert

    This text, a translation of a gospel lost for 1600 years, offers an alternative view of Jesus and his message, one left untouched by subsequent myth and interpretation. The image…

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    The Historical Jesus in Context

    Placing the gospel narratives in their full literary, social, and archaeological context, this collection includes translations and descriptions of texts that shed light on the Jesus of history. It demonstrates…

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    The Apocalyptic Jesus: A Debate

    Did the historical Jesus preach that God was about to bring an end to human history and impose the divine kingdom on the earth and all its peoples? Four eminent…

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