Adventures of an Itinerant Imagination: Essays Celebrating John Dominic Crossan on His Ninetieth Birthday - Hardcover

by Bernard Brandon Scott (Author)

John Dominic Crossan is the most important scholar on the historical Jesus since David Fredrick Strauss in the nineteenth century. Both his scholarly The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (1991) and the more popular Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994) made the bestsellers list. But the scope of his work goes well beyond the historical Jesus to studies on the death of Jesus and anti-Semitism, Christianity and empire, archaeology, the apostle Paul the Pharisee, and recently apocalyptic and the environment. He addresses both scholarly and popular audiences, ancient sources and contemporary concerns. The essays in this volume explore and access the range of his work for his various audiences. Some of the essays are scholarly in tone, while others are quite personal. A feature of this book is Crossan's complete curriculum vitae.

Author Biography

Bernard Brandon Scott is the Darbeth Distinguished Professor of New Testament Emeritus, Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A charter member of the Jesus Seminar, he is the author of many books, among them Hear Then the Parable (1989), The Real Paul (2015), and A Religious History of Abortion (2023). He is coauthor of Sound Mapping the New Testament (Cascade Books, 2009, 2nd edition 2022), After Jesus Before Christianity (2021), and Out of the Shadows, the Acts of [Paul and] Thecla (Cascade Books, 2024).