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John Dominic Crossan (born 17 February 1934) is an Irish-American New Testament scholar, historian of early Christianity and former Catholic priest who was a prominent member of the Jesus Seminar, and emeritus professor at DePaul University.
Crossan, John Dominic; Jesus ... Borg was a liberal Christian who articulated the vision hypothesis to explain Jesus' resurrection. [96] Some view Crossan as an ...
Raymond E. Brown and John P. Meier state that in addition to establishing that there was a large body of Christians in Rome, the Tacitus passage provides two other important pieces of historical information, namely that by around AD 60 it was possible to distinguish between Christians and Jews in Rome and that even pagans made a connection ...
John Dominic Crossan argued that Jesus's followers did not know what happened to the body. [ 97 ] [ note 10 ] According to Crossan, Joseph of Arimathea is "a total Markan creation in name, in place, and in function", [ 98 ] [ note 11 ] arguing that Jesus's followers inferred from Deut. 21:22–23 that Jesus was buried by a group of law-abiding ...
[30] [225] In John Dominic Crossan's view Jesus was crucified not for religious reasons but because his social teachings challenged the seat of power held by the Jewish authorities. [225] Crossan believes Galilee was a place where Greek and Jewish culture heavily interacted, [ 226 ] with Gadara , a day's walk from Nazareth , being a center of ...
In 2005, at the Greer-Heard Point-Counterpoint Forum, Wright discussed the historicity of Jesus' resurrection with Jesus Seminar co-founder John Dominic Crossan. Wright and Crossan, who also have mutual admiration, hold very different opinions on this foundational Christian doctrine.
John Dominic Crossan argues that the Gospel of Peter, as it is found in the modern day, was composed in the 2nd century but incorporates a passion narrative source that predates all other known passion accounts. He calls this primitive passion source the "Cross Gospel."
Borg frequently collaborated with his friend John Dominic Crossan. [16] He was a friend of N. T. Wright since their days together at Oxford, despite having theological differences. The two discussed those differences in their book The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (1999, rev. 2007).