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John Dominic Crossan
August 11 - 15, 2008
Professor Emeritus of Religious
Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, John Dominic Crossan
has written twenty books on the "Historical Jesus,"
four of which have become national best-sellers: The Historical
Jesus; Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography; Who Killed Jesus;
and The Birth of Christianity. A former co-chair of the Jesus
Seminar and former chair of the Historical Jesus Section of the
Society of Biblical Literature, Dr. Crossan is a major figure
in the fields of biblical archeology, anthropology, and New Testament
textual and higher criticism.
Born and raised in Ireland,
Dr. Crossan was educated in Ireland (St. Eunan's and Maynooth
Colleges) and the United States (Stonebridge and St. Mary of
the Lake Seminaries, and Catholic Theological Union, all in
Illinois), as well as at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in
Rome and the Ecole Biblique in East Jerusalem. Highly in demand
as a lecturer, he continues to educate all over the world. |
