John Dominic Crossan resources

John Dominic Crossan resources on the Web

Jorn Barger December 2002

[color vidcap from PBS]

"I am not too happy with... the recent shift from academic argumentation ('I will make your case as accurate and strong as I can before I demolish it') to political argumentation ('I will make your case as dumb and silly as I can before I demolish you')..." [cite]

Biographical timeline

1934: born near Portumna, County Galway, Ireland (father a banker)
gradeschool: Naas, County Kildare, Ireland (near Dublin)
1943: taught to memorise poems by father
1945-50: St. Eunan's College, Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland (all classes in Gaelic)

1951: Oct: to Stonebridge Seminary, Lake Bluff, IL-- Servite seminary near Chicago (2yrs philosophy, 4yrs religion, Gregorian chant)

1957: May: ordained priest
1957-59: Maynooth College, Ireland (DD degree, much independent reading)
1959-61: Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome (SSL degree)
1961-65: Ass't Prof of Biblical Studies, Stonebridge Seminary, Lake Bluff, IL ("I was the entire biblical department")
1965-67: Ecole Biblique, Jerusalem, Israel (sabbatical at school of archaeology)
1967-68: Ass't Prof of Biblical Studies, St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein IL

1968: resigns priesthood
1969: summer: marries Margaret Dagenais
1968-69: Ass't Prof of Biblical Studies, Catholic Theological Union
1969-73: Assoc Prof of Religious Studies, DePaul University
1970s: buys property and builds summer house near Cala Llonga on Ibiza in the Balearic Islands of Spain

1973-95: Professor of Religious Studies, DePaul University
1973-86: editorial board of Semeia: An Experimental Journal for Biblical Criticism
1975-78: Research & Publications Committee, Society of Biblical Literature
1977-87: editorial board, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
1980-86: General Editor, Semeia. An Experimental Journal for Biblical Criticism
198285: Research & Publications Committee, Society of Biblical Literature

1983: June: unexpected death of wife (heart attack); sells summer house
1985: March: first meeting of Jesus Seminar [info] [article]
1986: Aug: marries Sarah Sexton (two grown children)
1989: Award for Excellence in Religious Studies, American Academy of Religion
1991: Cortelyou-Lowery Award for Excellence, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, DePaul University

1992: Historical Jesus becomes bestseller
1992-98: Chair of Historical Jesus Section, Society of Biblical Literature
1992-98: Chair of Parables Seminar, Society of Biblical Literature
1995: Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies, DePaul University
1995: Via Sapientiae Award, DePaul University's highest honor

1996: Feb-Apr: email debate with Marcus Borg and Luke Timothy Johnson [etexts]
1996: fall: Croghan Bicentennial Visiting Professor of Religion, Williams College
1998: PBS series on historical Jesus research [searchpattern]
2000: article on Jesus 'what-ifs' [PDF]
2000: online seminar [extensive archive]

Sources: autobiog; Westar

Books

Scanning the Sunday Gospel (1966)

The Gospel of Eternal Life (1967)

In Parables: The Challenge of the Historical Jesus (1973, reprinted 1992)

Amazon: paper

Westar

The Dark Interval: Towards a Theology of Story (1975, reprinted 1988)

Amazon: paper

Raid on the Articulate: Comic Eschatology in Jesus and Borges (1976)

Finding Is the First Act: Trove Folktales and Jesus' Treasure Parable (1979)

Amazon: oop

Cliffs of Fall: Paradox and Polyvalence in the Parables of Jesus (1980)

Amazon: oop

A Fragile Craft: The Work of Amos Niven Wilder (1981).

Amazon: paper

In Fragments: The Aphorisms of Jesus, San Francisco (1983)

Amazon: oop

Four Other Gospels: Shadows on the Contours of Canon (1985, reprinted 1992)

Amazon: oop

Sayings Parallels: A Workbook for the Jesus Tradition (1986)

Amazon: oop

The Cross that Spoke: The Origins of the Passion Narrative (1988)

Amazon: oop

Westar

The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (1991)

Amazon: paper

Reviews: Danny, JesusArchive, Campbell

Critiques: Pearson, Loader

The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images (1994)

Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994)

Amazon: paper

Reviews: JesusArchive, RBL, Campbell

Jesus and Faith: A Conversation on the Work of John Dominic Crossan (1994, with Robert Ludwig and Jeffrey Carlson)

Amazon: paper

Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus (1995)

Amazon: paper

Reviews: Danny, Tolerance

Religious Worlds: Primary Readings in Comparative Perspective (1995, editor)

Amazon: paper

Who Is Jesus? Answers to Your Questions about the Historical Jesus (1996, edited with Richard Watts)

Amazon: paper

precis

The Essential Jesus (1998)

Amazon: hard

The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus (1998)

Amazon: paper

Reviews: Doherty, Campbell, Harvard

Will the Real Jesus Please Stand up?: A Debate between William Lane Craig and John Dominic Crossan (1999)

Amazon: paper

The Jesus Controversy: Perspectives in Conflict (1999, with others)

Amazon: hard

A Long Way from Tipperary: A Memoir (2000)

Amazon: hard

The Once and Future Jesus: The Future of Jesus, the Church of the Future, the Future of the Faith (2000, with Robert Funk and Thomas Sheehan)

We Need Not Fear the Truth (2000)

Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, behind the Texts (2001, with Jonathan L. Reed)

Amazon: hard

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