Excavating Jesus

Beneath The Stones, Behind The Texts

BY JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN
The authors show that recent archaeological finds support the Gospel stories. They dig down into the meaning of the Gospel stories and present archaeological evidence that sheds light on them. Well illustrated this makes for a fascinating new way into the texts.

HarperSF 2002 298 Paper

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The First Christmas

What The Gospels Really Teach About Jesus' Birth

BY MARCUS BORG AND JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN
In The First Christmas, two of today's top Jesus scholars, Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan, join forces to show how history has biased our reading of the nativity story as it appears in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. As they did for Easter in their previous book, The Last Week, here they explore the beginning of the life of Christ, peeling away the sentimentalism that has built up over the last two thousand years around this most well known of all stories to reveal the truth of what the gospels actually say. Borg and Crossan help us to see this well-known narrative afresh by answering the question, "What do these stories mean?"

HarperOne 2009 272 PP. Paper

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The First Paul (hardback)

Reclaiming The Radical Visionary Behind The Church's Conservative Icon

BY MARCUS BORG, JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN
Borg and Crossan contend there are "Three Pauls" in the New Testament: "The Radical Paul" (of the seven genuine letters), "The Conservative Paul" (of the three disputed epistles), and "The Reactionary Paul" (of the three inauthentic letters). By closely examining this progression of Paul's letters-from the authentic to the inauthentic-the authors show how the apostle was slowly but steadily "deradicalized" to fit Roman social norms in regards to slavery, patriarchy, and patronage. In truth, Paul was an appealing apostle of Jesus whose vision of life "in Christ" is remarkably faithful to the message of Jesus himself.

HarperOne 2009 240 PP. Cloth

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God And Empire

Jesus Against Rome, Then And Now

BY JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN
At the heart of the Bible is a moral and ethical call to fight unjust superpowers, whether they are Babylon, Rome, or even America. From the divine punishment and promise found in Genesis through the revolutionary messages of Jesus and Paul, John Dominic Crossan reveals what the Bible has to say about land and economy, violence and retribution, justice and peace, and, ultimately, redemption. In contrast to the oppressive Roman military occupation of the first century, he examines the meaning of the non-violent Kingdom of God prophesized by Jesus and the equality advocated by Paul to the early Christian churches. Jesus preached a different kind of peace and a kingdom of God.

HarperOne 2008 257 PP. Paper

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In Search Of Paul

How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire With God's Kingdom - A New Vision Of Paul's Words And World

BY JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN
Many theories exist about who Paul was, what he believed, and what role he played Using archaeological and textual evidence, and taking advantage of recent discoveries in Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Syria, Crossan and Reed show that Paul was a fallible but dedicated successor to Jesus, carrying on the mission of inaugurating the Kingdom of God on earth in opposition to the reign of Rome. Against the concrete backdrop of 1st-century Greco-Roman and Jewish life, In Search of Paul reveals the work of Paul as never before, showing how and why the liberating messages and practices of equality, caring for the poor, and a just society under God's rules, not Rome's, were so appealing.

HarperSanFrancisco 2005 464 PP. Paper

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Jesus - A Revolutionary Biography

BY JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN
"Crossan paints his Jesus with great warmth and power. He achieves a portrait that both takes in the contemporary background yet accounts for Jesus' distinctiveness. . . . This Jesus is a Jewish peasant, with a direct sense of God's immediacy, who shatters all social restraints." - New York Times Book Review

HarperSF 1995 224 PP. Paper

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The Last Week - Paperback

What The Gospels Really Teach About Jesus' Final Days In Jerusalem

BY MARCUS BORG AND JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN
As both authors reacted to and responded to questions about Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events during the week leading up to Jesus's crucifixion. Using the gospel of Mark as their guide, Borg and Crossan present a day-by-day account of Jesus's final week of life. They begin their story on Palm Sunday with two triumphal entries into Jerusalem. The first entry, that of Roman governor Pontius Pilate leading Roman soldiers into the city, symbolized military strength. The second heralded a new kind of moral hero who was praised by the people as he rode in on a humble donkey.

HarperSanFrancisco 2006 240 PP. Paper

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